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Lin, Jin-Ding; Lin, Lan-Ping; Hung, Wen-Jiu – Research in Developmental Disabilities: A Multidisciplinary Journal, 2013
This paper aims to describe a general demographic picture of patients with rare diseases in Taiwan and particularly focuses on the prevalence of rare diseases over time, age and gender distributions. We analyzed data mainly from the national disability registry from 2002 to 2011 in Taiwan, Republic of China. The results showed that the number of…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Incidence, Genetic Disorders, Child Health
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Lin, Jin-Ding; Yen, Chia-Feng; Wu, Jia-Ling; Kang, Shih-Wan – Research in Developmental Disabilities: A Multidisciplinary Journal, 2009
The main purposes of the present analysis were to describe the causes of intellectual disability (ID) and examine its overtime change from 2000 to 2007 in Taiwan. Data of the present study mainly come from the public web-access information which collected by the Department of Statistics, Ministry of the Interiors, Taipei, Taiwan. Data were…
Descriptors: Databases, Mental Retardation, Diseases, Foreign Countries
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Yen, Chia-Feng; Lin, Jin-Ding; Wu, Jia-Ling; Kang, Shih-Wan – Research in Developmental Disabilities: A Multidisciplinary Journal, 2009
The purposes of the present study were to describe the institutional care for people with disabilities included service types, service capacity and service utilization from 2002 through 2007 in Taiwan. Data were obtained from four ways of national data: (1) The condition of service institution for the physically and mentally disabled; (2) The…
Descriptors: Physical Disabilities, Foreign Countries, Residential Care, Institutionalized Persons