Disability epidemiology in the developing world.

2005

Glenn Fujiura
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312-413-1977

Fujiura, G.T. (2004). Disability epidemiology in the developing world. Journal of Intellectual Disability Research, 48, 283-285. The global epidemiology of disability is reviewed in terms of the underlying causes, distribution, and social consequences of impairment. Emphasis is given to the conceptualization of disablement within cultures and its connection to poverty and a global disability policy agenda. Core themes include: (a) the centrality of the developing world to an international disability agenda, (b) the profound linkages of poverty to disability in both the developing world and established market economies, (c) importance of population-level information to advancing a reform dialogue, and (d) a cautionary note on emerging concepts of disablement that are embedded in the ICF and their implications for how we articulate disability and poverty issues in developing nations. Though the dynamics of disability and poverty are different for the developed and developing worlds, the fact of poverty and disenfranchisement is a common thread. Models of advocacy that frame disablement as both a human rights and economic issue must be integrated into international third-world development efforts (author).

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