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Descriptor English: Disability Evaluation
Descriptor Spanish: Evaluación de la Discapacidad
Descriptor valoración de discapacidades
Scope note: Determinación del grado de minusvalía física, mental o emocional. El diagnóstico se aplica a la cualificación legal para la obtención de beneficios e ingresos de seguros de incapacidad, la elegibilidad para la Seguridad Social y los beneficios de compensación de los trabajadores.
Descriptor Portuguese: Avaliação da Deficiência
Descriptor French: Évaluation de l'invalidité
Entry term(s): Disability Evaluations
Evaluation, Disability
Evaluations, Disability
Tree number(s): E01.370.400
RDF Unique Identifier: https://id.nlm.nih.gov/mesh/D004185
Scope note: Determination of the degree of a physical, mental, or emotional handicap. The diagnosis is applied to legal qualification for benefits and income under disability insurance and to eligibility for Social Security and workmen's compensation benefits.
Allowable Qualifiers: No qualifiers
Related: International Classification of Functioning, Disability and Health MeSH
Veterans Disability Claims MeSH
DeCS ID: 4245
Unique ID: D004185
Documents indexed in the Virtual Health Library (VHL): Click here to access the VHL documents
Date Established: 1966/01/01
Date of Entry: 1999/01/01
Revision Date: 2013/07/08
Disability Evaluation - Preferred
Concept UI M0006555
Scope note Determination of the degree of a physical, mental, or emotional handicap. The diagnosis is applied to legal qualification for benefits and income under disability insurance and to eligibility for Social Security and workmen's compensation benefits.
Preferred term Disability Evaluation
Entry term(s) Disability Evaluations
Evaluation, Disability
Evaluations, Disability



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