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Assess the extent of mental disability in a population: a realistic task? Volume 90, issue 4, Avril 2014

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1 Professeure de l’EHESP, EHESP/MSSH, École des Hautes Études en Santé publique, 236 bis, rue de Tolbiac, 75013 Paris, France
2 Ingénieure d’études, ENS/MSSH, École normale supérieure, Maison des sciences sociales du handicap, 236 bis, rue de Tolbiac, 75013 Paris, France
3 Ingénieure d’études de l’EHESP, EHESP/MSSH, École des Hautes Etudes en Santé publique, 236 bis, rue de Tolbiac, 75013 Paris, France
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Dissemination of the term “psychological disability” has created a demand for assessing the phenomenon and enumeration of these situations in the French population. To perform this assessment, the exact contents of this concept must first be established. However, theoretical references that have favoured the emergence of the term “psychological disability” are hardly compatible with the concept itself and even less compatible with the estimate of a target population. Furthermore, the constraints of general population surveys complicate information retrieval regarding the phenomena where the subjective dimension is important.