Disability, Health and Human Development [electronic resource]

• Tác giả: Sophie Mitra
• Ngôn ngữ: eng
• ISBN-13: 978-1137536389
• Ký hiệu phân loại: 338.9 Economic development and growth
• Thông tin xuất bản: New York, NY, U.S.A : Palgrave Macmillan US, 2018 2018
• Mô tả vật lý: XXI, 177 p. 20 illus., 17 illus. in color. , online resource.
• Bộ sưu tập: Tài liệu truy cập mở
• ID: 200465
• Chủ đề: 1. Africa-Economic conditions; 2. Economic development; 3. Economic policy; 4. People with disabilities; 5. Social change; 6. Development and Social Change; 7. African Economics; 8. Development and Health; 9. Development Policy; 10. Development Theory; 11. Disability Studies

Tóm tắt

This open access book introduces the human development model to define disability and map its links with health and wellbeing, based on Sen's capability approach. The author uses panel survey data with internationally comparable questions on disability for Ethiopia, Malawi, Tanzania and Uganda. It presents evidence on the prevalence of disability and its strong and consistent association with multidimensional poverty, mortality, economic insecurity and deprivations in education, morbidity and employment. It shows that disability needs to be considered from multiple angles including aging, gender, health and poverty. Ultimately, this study makes a call for inclusion and prevention interventions as solutions to the deprivations associated with impairments and health conditions. .