Functional Limitations and Use of General Health Examination and Cancer Screening Among People with Disabilities Who Need Support from Others: Secondary Data Analysis of the 2022 Comprehensive Survey of Living Conditions in Japan.

ABSTRACT: Functional limitations that compromise preventive healthcare service utilization by people with disabilities in Japan are unelucidated. Secondary data from the Comprehensive Survey of Living Conditions (CSLC) in 2022 on the functional limitations defined by the Washington Group Short Set may bridge the knowledge gap, with evaluation of the generalizability of the knowledge as CSLC2022 was conducted in the aftermath of the COVID-19 pandemic. We described the number and types of functional limitations among people with disabilities who did not participate in the general health examination and cancer screenings. For the generalizability evaluation, we analyzed preventive service uptake and its relevance to disability status and compared them with compatible data from the CSLC from 2016, condu

SUBMITTER: Saito T 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC12026762 | biostudies-literature | 2025 Mar

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature