That was one and a half percent of the world economy, and just losses from early death and disability.

VOA: special.2010.08.25

The World Health Organization says alcohol abuse is the third leading cause of death and disability in the world.

VOA: special.2011.03.08

Their study looked at the causes of disability among fifteen thousand people age sixty-five or older in seven countries.

VOA: special.2009.12.28

Disability will always be here, unfortunately. So it behooves all of us to make it a world that everybody can live in."

VOA: special.2010.07.28

It was responsible for more than four and one-half percent of all the years people lived with disability.

VOA: special.2009.09.08

The agency says rape and domestic violence are a major cause of disability and death among women ages fifteen to forty four.

VOA: special.2010.03.08

And it will extend protection to those victimized because of their gender or gender identity or a disability.

VOA: special.2009.10.31

The World Report on Disability says few countries do enough to meet the needs of the disabled.

VOA: special.2011.06.29

"People are more focused on communicable diseases and not paying enough attention to the amount of disability there is from mental health conditions.

VOA: special.2010.10.04

But overall,it's good. Thanks to the ADA, we are being more accepted, like having a disability.

VOA: special.2010.07.28

"Let me tell you something, disability doesn't care if you're young, old,rich,poor,black,white, green or purple.

VOA: special.2010.07.28

The projects bring together disability groups and development organizations in Colombia,Jordan and Ethiopia.

VOA: special.2011.06.29

In the past,mental disability was generally treated as a shameful and hopeless disease.

VOA: special.2009.08.23

More than forty million Americans have some level of disability.

VOA: special.2009.08.15

Strokes are a major cause of death and disability.

VOA: special.2009.08.12

MS does not always result in severe disability.

VOA: special.2009.01.06

Osteoarthritis is the result of infection, trauma or simply age, and is the leading cause of chronic disability worldwide.

VOA: standard.2010.08.11

Bill Campbell,an Iraq war veteran with a 100 percent disability due to concussive brain injury, received a beautiful yellow Labrador called Pax.

VOA: standard.2010.05.18

Disability advocates say that also will help diminish the negative stereotyping that people with disabilities sometimes still endure.

VOA: standard.2010.07.27

"So it's a huge program, but the effects of that program are just enormous in preventing disability."

VOA: standard.2010.08.02

"Let me tell you something, disability doesn't care if you're young, old,rich,poor,black,white,green or purple."

VOA: standard.2010.07.27

People battling excess weight have higher rates of disability, diabetes and heart disease - disorders that make them sicker at younger ages and dependent on medications for many years.

VOA: standard.2010.04.08

Having a disability, people still look at you weird, but it's like, 'Alright.He's got a disability, but it's kind of okay now.'" Life for people with disabilities has improved greatly since Bobbi Wailes was stricken with polio as a 12-year-old, before the vaccine became available in the 1950s.

VOA: standard.2010.07.27