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• Disability Disability / incapacity A physical/mental condition limiting activities; lack of ability; a handicap preventing normal life or work.
• Disability Disability / incapacity A biological defect, pathology, or bodily system failure requiring treatment/cure.
• Disability Disability / incapacity Disadvantage imposed by societal barriers excluding people with impairments.
• Disability Disability / incapacity Umbrella term for impairments, activity limitations, and participation restrictions.
• Disability Disability / incapacity Impairment substantially limiting one or more major life activities; or a record of, or being regarded as having, such an impairment.
• Disability Disability / incapacity Physical/mental impairment with a substantial, long-term negative effect on normal daily activities.
• Disability Disability / incapacity Total/partial loss of bodily/mental functions; loss of a body part; presence of disease organisms in the body.
• Disability Disability / incapacity Long-term or recurring physical or mental impairment that substantially limits prospects of entry into, or advancement in, employment.
• Disability Disability / incapacity Inability to perform the material and substantial duties of one's own occupation (or, later, any occupation for which reasonably suited), triggering income-replacement benefits.
• Disability Disability / incapacity Physical or mental incapacity of a member which is likely to prevent them from following their normal occupation (or a comparable one) for a period exceeding a fund-specified minimum.
• Disability Disability / incapacity Long-term impairments interacting with barriers that hinder full/equal participation.
• Disability Disability / incapacity Inability to work, triggering income-replacement benefits.
• Disability Disability / incapacity Inability to engage in "Substantial Gainful Activity" (SGA) due to a medically determinable impairment.
• Disability Disability / incapacity (See Biopsychosocial and Social model entries above)
• Disability / Disablement Disability / incapacity Permanent or temporary reduction in earning capacity resulting from an occupational injury or disease.
• Disablement Disability / incapacity The state or process of being disabled; the act of making a person or device inoperative.
• Disablement Disability / incapacity The pathological outcome of injury/disease.
• Disablement Disability / incapacity The active process of being marginalized by societal structures.
• Disablement Disability / incapacity (Police/employment law) Being blind, deaf, or permanently handicapped.
• Disablement Disability / incapacity (Not a defined statutory term)
• Disablement Disability / incapacity (Not a separately defined statutory term; "disability" is the operative term)
• Disablement Disability / incapacity (Not used)
• Disablement Disability / incapacity The specific event/claim triggering a payout.
• Disablement Disability / incapacity (Not a separate term)
• Disablement Disability / incapacity A metric of functional capacity loss; the process of exclusion.