TRENDS IN CHILDHOOD DISABILITY

Technology enhances human survival, but at a cost of increased prevale nce of disability. This, together with the trend to later child-bearin g, increases society's financial responsibility for disabled people. F or rational planning for future requirements, we need registers based on geographically defined areas, enumerating, by year of birth, all in dividuals with each type of disability, defined by criteria which rema in constant over time.