Trends in the long-term impact of childhood visual impairment on health and social outcomes in the UK: a cross-cohort study across three decades of disability-related legislation and policy implementation
Vasiliki Bountziouka, Lisanne Andra Horvat-Gitsels, Mario Cortina-Borja, Jugnoo Sangeeta Rahi · 2023
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Vasiliki Bountziouka and three co-authors ask whether adult life got fairer for people who grew up with poor sight, in a study published in two thousand twenty-three. They used three British birth cohorts, born in nineteen forty-six, nineteen fifty-eight, and nineteen seventy, more than fourteen thousand people in all. Sight was checked in the teen years, and health, work, housing, and social life were tracked into middle age. The span covers decades of new disability law and policy.
The trends were mixed, not a simple march of progress. In the youngest cohort, those with poor childhood sight faced worse odds of poor physical health, crowded or poor housing, and joblessness than their peers. Some gaps shrank, others grew. The authors say laws alone have not leveled adult life for this group.
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| CREATOR | Vasiliki Bountziouka, Lisanne Andra Horvat-Gitsels, Mario Cortina-Borja, Jugnoo Sangeeta Rahi |
|---|---|
| YEAR | 2023 |
| COLLECTION | PAPERS |
| FORMAT | TXT |
| FILE SIZE | 34 KB |
| VERSION | 1.0 |
| LICENSE | CC BY 4.0 |
| RIGHTS | CC BY |
| SOURCE | Europe PMC |