Rehabilitation seeks to optimize functioning of people with impairments and includes a
range of specific health services—diagnosis, treatment, surgery, assistive devices, and …

Description: Second Edition.| New York: Routledge, 2020.| Series: Routledge international
handbooks| Revised edition of Routledge handbook of disability studies, 2012.| Includes …

Purpose. HIV/AIDS has grown to become the biggest epidemic in modern history. Southern
Africa is at the epicentre of the global epidemic, with just of a third of the world's HIV-positive …

Out of school children are a critical issue in education and development. Very little is known
as to whether a disability is associated with a higher risk of being out of school for children in …

The impact of disability on the living conditions of people living in specifically resource‐poor
areas in South Africa has not previously been addressed. This paper presents a comparison …

Background: Whilst broadly agreed in the literature that disability and poverty are closely
interlinked, the empirical basis for this knowledge is relatively weak. Objectives: To describe …

In the last decade, the relationship between poverty and disability has been strongly
established, and most of the major international development agencies such as the World …

Abstract World Health Organization (WHO) has estimated that 10% of the global population
has a disability, with social educational and/or economical consequences. Although such …

Purpose: To assess the prevalence of disability and service needs in post-earthquake Haiti,
and to compare the inclusion and living conditions of people with disabilities to those without …

This report is from the National study on living conditions among people with disabilities
carried out in Nepal in 2014-2015. The study was carried out as a household survey with …