Disability, Health and Human Development

ISBN-13: 9781137536372 / Angielski / Twarda / 2017 / 177 str.

S. Mitra

Opis

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.

Spis treści

1 Introduction

1.1 Motivation

1.2 Research questions and scope of the book

1.3 Book overview

2 The Human Development Model of Disability, Health and Wellbeing

2.1 The Capability Approach and Disability

2.2 The Human development model

2.3 Other disability models

2.4 Comparison of the human development model to other models

2.5 Conclusion

3 Measurement, Data and Context

3.1 Implementing the human development model

3.2 Data

3.3 Country context

4 Prevalence of Functional Difficulties

4.1 Literature on disability prevalence in LMICs

4.2 Methodology

4.3 Prevalence at the individual level

4.4 Prevalence at the household level

4.5 Conclusion: summary and implications

5 Functional Difficulties and Inequalities through a Static Lens

5.1 Literature on inequalities associated with disability

5.2 Methodology

5.3 Results and discussion

5.4 Conclusion: summary and implications

6 Dynamics of Functional Difficulties and Wellbeing

6.1. Functional trajectories and their correlates

6.2 Changes in functional difficulties and economic wellbeing

6.3 Functional difficulties and mortality within two years

6.4 Conclusion: summary and implications

7 Main Results and Implications

7.1 Main results and some implications

7.2 Implications for policies and programs

7.3 Implications for data

7.4 Further Research

Appendices

Index 

O autorze

Sophie Mitra is Professor of Economics at Fordham University, USA. She is co-editor of the series Palgrave Studies in Disability and International Development, Fellow of the Human Development and Capability Association, and Senior research associate at the Center for International Policy Studies at Fordham.