| Autor institucional : | OPS, PAHO |
| Autor/Autores: | Ahmad R. Hosseinpoor, MD, Jennifer A. Stewart Williams, PhD, Jeny Gautam, BHSc, Aleksandra Posarac, MPH, Alana Officer, MPH, Emese Verdes, PhD, Nenad Kostanjsek, MPH, and Somnath Chatterji, MD |
| Fecha de publicación: | May, 2013 |
| Alcance geográfico: | Internacional |
| Publicado en: | Internacional |
| Descargar: | Descargar PDF |
| Resumen: | The World Health Organization (WHO) estimates that there are more than 1 billion people in the world living with some form of disability, of whom nearly 200 million have considerable difficulties in functioning.1 Almost everyone will experience disability at some time in their lives. Those who live longer will endure increasing difficulties in everyday physical and mental functioning.1 The United Nations Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities2 identified disability as an international priority area for concerted action. Reported disability prevalence rates are lower in low- and lower middle-income countries than in upper middle- and high-income countries.1 However, this may reflect different approaches to measuring and defining disability within and between individual countries and also different age distributions in the countries.3---5 Surveys conducted in developing countries tend to focus on impairments. In developed countries, the focus is often on broader areas of participation and the need for services.1 There is clearly a need to improve comparability between countries and studies, but in order to do this it is necessary to achieve consistency in definition and measurement. |
