Deaf Health Research Project: A study of Deaf people’s health

Online survey (Ipsos MORI) – BSL and English. Are Deaf people more or less healthy than hearing people?

http://deafhealth.org.uk/

Dementia study launched within the Deaf community (University of Manchester, University College London, City University London, Royal Association for Deaf People – March 2010)

Press release and Notes for Editors – English and BSL

http://www.manchester.ac.uk/aboutus/news/display/?id=5516

Dementia and deafness: what you need to know: Kate Allan, Frankie McLean and Liz Scott Gibson (Deaf Action in partnership with the Dementia Services Development Centre (DSDC) at the University of Stirling)

Information on issues faced by people who are both deaf/hard of hearing and have dementia (a group of conditions that includes Alzheimer’s Disease), to help find ways to support them and their families, and enable them to continue to live as full a life as possible.

Web page and PDF:

http://www.alzscot.org/pages/info/deafness.htm#Working

PDF:

http://www.deafaction.org/pdf/Dementia%20&%20Deafness.pdf

Deaf People’s Understanding of Health and Health Care Systems (Sally Ann Reynolds, M Phil Dissertation, University of Bristol, 2007)

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I Want Better Health – Online Survey, BSL & English

Online survey in BSL and English about Deaf people’s health and how services could be improved.

www.iwantbetterhealth.org.uk

Swine Flu (NHS 24 Leaflet in BSL)

http://www.nhs24.com/content/default.asp?page=s3_13_21

Sign Health website

Some BSL, text

http://www.signhealth.org.uk/

Sign Translate (“instant help for Deaf people communicating with medical staff.”)

http://www.signtranslate.com/index.php?page=home

Inequalities in access to healthcare faced by women who are deaf: J. Ubido MSc , J. Huntington Stage 3 Sign Language, D. Warburton City & Guilds 7307 (Health & Social Care in the Community Volume 10 Issue 4, Pages 247 – 253) Published Online: 27 Jun 2002

http://www3.interscience.wiley.com/journal/118958211/abstract

Empowering the deaf. Let the deaf be deaf: Irma M Munoz-Baell, M Teresa Ruiz (The Journal of Epidemiology and Community Health, 2000;54:40-44 doi:10.1136/jech.54.1.40)

Abstract with links to free full text & PDF

http://jech.bmj.com/content/54/1/40.abstract