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Accessibility and Disability

Database Query Sets

Medical Subject Headings (MeSH):

  • Access to Information
  • User/Computer interface
  • Health Services Accessibility
  • Disability Evaluation
  • Veterans Disability Claims
  • Intellectual Disability
  • Cognitive Disorders
  • Cognitive Dysfunction
  • Communication Disorders
  • Neurocognitive Disorders
  • Disabled persons
  • Persons with Mental Disabilities
  • Hearing Disorders
  • Vision Disorders

Keywords:

  • accessibility
  • accessibility services
  • cognitive impairment 
  • physical disability
  • disability theory
  • web standards

CINAHL Subject Headings: 

  • Health Services Accessibility
  • Public Accommodation
  • Architectural Accessibility
  • Attitude to Disability
  • Health Services for persons with Disabilities
  • Adaptive Seating
  • Disability-Adjusted Life years
  • Severity of Disability
  • Intellectual Disability
  • Developmental Disability
  • Disability Management
  • International Classification of Functioning, Disability, and Health
  • Health Services Needs and Demands
  • Community Mental Health Services 
  • Student Health Services 
  • Nurses with Disabilities
  • Communication Disorders

ERIC Subject Terms:

  • Disabilities
    • Adventitious Impairments
    • Attention Deficit Disorders
    • Behavior Disorders
    • Communication Disorders
    • Congenital Impairments
    • Developmental Disabilities 
    • Hearing Impairments
    • Injuries
    • Diseases
    • Intellectual Disability
    • Language Impairments
    • Learning Disabilities
    • Mental Disorders
    • Mild Disabilities
    • Multiple Disabilities
    • Perceptual Impairments
    • Physical Disabilities
    • Severe Disabilities 
    • Special Health Problems
    • Speech Impairments
    • Visual Impairments
  • Ability
    • Attitudes towards disabilities 
    • Developmental Delays
    • Disability Identification
  • Accessibility (for Disabled)
    • Assistive Technology
    • Barriers
    • Deaf interpreting
    • Design Requirements
    • Physical Mobility
    • Sensory Aids

PsychInfo Controlled Vocabulary:

  • Accommodation (Disabilities)
  • Developmental Disabilities
    • Neurodevelopmental Disorders
  • Learning Disabilities
  • Multiple Disabilities 
    • Deaf Blind
  • Physical Disabilities (Attitudes Towards)
  • Reading Disabilities
  • Sensory Disabilities (Attitudes Towards)
  • Disabilities
    • Disability Management
    • Disability Discrimination

AMED Subject Headings:

  • Environmental Design
  • Health services accessibility
  • Needs assessment
  • Disability
    • Developmental Disabilities
    • Handicap
    • Learning Disability
    • Wheelchair Dependence
  • Rehabilitation
  • Health Planning
  • Quality of Life

Embase Subject Terms:

  • Physical Disability
  • Language Disability
  • Attitude to Disability
  • Disability Discrimination
  • Disability Rights
  • Disability Severity
  • Social Disability
  • Work Disability
  • ADL Disability
  • Disability Adjusted Life Year
  • Disability Assessment