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Disability, Health and Human Development Sophie Mitra

Disability, Health and Human Development By Sophie Mitra

Disability, Health and Human Development by Sophie Mitra


Summary

This open access book introduces the human development model to define disability and map its links with health and wellbeing, based on Sens capability approach.

Disability, Health and Human Development Summary

Disability, Health and Human Development by Sophie Mitra

This open access book introduces the human development model to define disability and map its links with health and wellbeing, based on Sens 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.

About Sophie Mitra

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.

Table of Contents

Chapter 1: Introduction.- Chapter 2: The Human Development Model of Disability, Health and Wellbeing.- Chapter 3: Measurement, Data and Context.- Chapter 4: Prevalence of Functional Difficulties.- Chapter 5: Functional Difficulties and Inequalities through a Static Lens.- Chapter 6: Dynamics of Functional Difficulties and Wellbeing.- Chapter 7: Main Results and Implications.

Additional information

NPB9781137536372
9781137536372
1137536373
Disability, Health and Human Development by Sophie Mitra
New
Hardback
Palgrave Macmillan
2017-09-07
177
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