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The relationship between health conditions and disabilities is complicated. Whether a
health condition, interacting with contextual factors, will result in disability is
determined by inter-related factors. Often the interaction of several conditions rather
than a single one contributes to the relationship between health conditions and
disability. Co-morbidity, associated with more severe disability than single
conditions, has implications for disability. Also the presence of multiple health
problems can make the management of health care and rehabilitation services more
difficult. …It is not possible to produce definitive global statistics on the relationship
between disability and health conditions.