Access to Services and Barriers faced by People with Disabilities: A Quantitative Survey

Factors that influence the use of community assets by people with physical disabilities: results of participatory mapping in Envigado, Colombia

“…There are also reports of people with disabilities in urban settings in Colombia, spending more financial resources on taxis than their peers without disabilities due to the lack of accessible buses [42]. More broadly, our results also align with evidence from other contexts in Latin America where students with disabilities identified that the infrastructure to get to and at the university and attitudes of professors and administrative staff pose difficulties for the full enjoyment of the university and to exercise their right to education [41,[43][44][45]. In high income settings, such as the US and Denmark, barriers at the community level prevail where people with disabilities report difficulties in using health care facilities and green spaces, respectively [46,47].…”

Cross-sectional Survey to Assess Prevalence of Disability and Access to Services in Albay Province, The Philippines

“…The unemployment rate among working age persons with disabilities was 60.9%; the comparable rate for the overall Filipino population, was estimated to be 5.7% in April 2017 (PSA 2017). This level of reduced access to work is consistent with the findings of other international studies on employment among persons with disabilities (Grills et al, 2017;WHO, 2011). Employed persons with disabilities generally occupied lower-skilled and unskilled jobs.…”

“…Recent studies in the Philippines and India using the RAD survey have shown that people with disabilities had lower access to services compared to people without disability: the barrier most often reported was a lack of information about the services (Marella et al, 2016;Grills et al, 2017). Our study also showed that the most important reason for not accessing support was a lack of knowledge about the availability of services, followed by no contact from support services ( Figure 6).…”

“…Persons with disabilities were identified based on their responses to questions on activity limitations using the Rapid Assessment of Disability (RAD) survey. Use of the same tool in Uttarakhand, India found the prevalence of disability among adults to be 6.8% (Grills et al, 2017). Disability prevalence estimates with RAD are comparable to the WGSSQ, however RAD also identifies respondents with psychological distress (Marella et al, 2015) which would be a factor contributing to the lower estimated prevalence of disability found in our survey.…”

“…The proportion of persons with disabilities, ≥5 years old, with no school attendance was 11.0%, compared with 4.0% among the overall household population ≥5 years old in the 2010 census (PSA, 2016); recent studies using the RAD survey found that people with disabilities were significantly less likely to have schooling compared to people without disability (Marella et al, 2016;Grills et al, 2017). We found that most persons with disabilities do not study beyond elementary school ( Figures 2 and 3); as of the school year 2012-2013, around 25% of students in the general population did not complete four years of high school (UNESCO, 2015).…”