Extra costs of living with a disability: A review and agenda for research

Mitra, Sophie; Palmer, Michael; Kim, Hoolda; Mont, Daniel; Groce, Nora

doi:10.1016/j.dhjo.2017.04.007

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“…Yet emerging evidence suggests that people with disabilities may face additional challenges accessing these types of schemes. For example, with means testing, eligibility thresholds rarely consider extra disability‐related costs, which can alter determinations of who is considered to be poor (Banks et al, ; Gooding and Marriot, ; Mitra et al, ). One study in Viet Nam found that consideration of disability‐related costs would increase the poverty rate among people with disabilities from 16.4 per cent to 20.1 per cent (Braithwaite and Mont, ), which would have important implications if programmes were means tested.…”

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“…Additionally, targeted programmes may be needed to address disability‐specific concerns, such as access to assistive devices and specialist health and educational services. Account also must be made for the higher costs incurred by people with disabilities in participating in society, as a result of needs for accessible transport, carers, assistive devices and so on (ILO, ; Devandas Aguilar, ; Mitra et al, ). According to recent estimates from the International Labour Organization, 27.8 per cent of people with severe disabilities globally receive some form of disability benefit (ILO, ).…”

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Access to social protection among people with disabilities: Evidence from Viet Nam

Banks

Walsham

Minh

et al. 2019

Int Social Security Review

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Although people with disabilities are frequently targeted as key beneficiaries of social protection, little is known on their access to existing programmes. This study uses mixed methods to explore participation in disability‐targeted and non‐targeted social protection programmes in Viet Nam, particularly in the district of Cam Le. In this district, social assistance and health insurance coverage among people with disabilities was 53 per cent and 96 per cent respectively. However, few accessed employment‐linked social insurance and other disability‐targeted benefits (e.g. vocational training, transportation discounts). Factors affecting access included the accessibility of the application process, disability assessment procedures, awareness and the perceived utility of programmes, and attitudes on disability and social protection.

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Access to social protection among people with disabilities: Evidence from Viet Nam

Banks

Walsham

Minh

et al. 2019

Int Social Security Review

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“…Two recent systematic reviews support the existence of a positive association between disability and poverty (Banks, Kuper, & Polack, ; Mitra, Palmer, Kim, Mont, & Groce, ), beginning to fill the gap of quantitative research on the disability–poverty relationship, especially for low‐ and middle‐income countries. Critical scholars point out the danger embedded within the impulse to codify, measure, and transport “two such multidimensional and continually evolving ‘conditions’ of life” across different cultural contexts: namely, the danger of perpetuating a “simplified discourse,” akin to that circulating for women in development (WID) projects that ignored the agency and capacities of the women themselves (Campbell, ; Grech, , p. 222).…”

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Disability studies and development geography: Empirical connections, theoretical resonances, and future directions

Jampel

Bebbington

2018

Geography Compass

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Scholarship that jointly considers disability and development has advanced over the past decade to include greater attention to the shared histories of colonialism, racism, and the disability category and the relationships among developmental states, ideas about disability, and development projects. A handful of geographers have also directly addressed disability and development or disability in the “developing world” context. This paper reviews current scholarship and highlights three areas where disability studies and development geography share under‐explored empirical connections and theoretical resonances: the disability–poverty nexus, interventions in the name of improvement and cure, and mobility and migration. Yet bringing greater attention to disability in development must be done carefully, given the fraught nature of the disability category. As such, this paper also considers how development geographers might contribute to the literature while accounting for the ways in which ideas about what constitutes “disability” and what constitutes “development” emerge through sets of processes and relationships.

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“…At work we use the concept of lifestyle in disability (Mitra et al, 2017;Sharma and Maiumdar, 2009;Ventegodt and Merrick, 2003). We have assumed that lifestyle is a complex process that refers to a social group -people with a similar degree and type of disability.…”

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Health Status and Lifestyle of the Mentally and Physically Disabled

Dębicka¹,

Mazurek²,

Szalonka³

2020

ERSJ

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Purpose:The aim of the article is to identify differences and similarities in the lifestyles of people with physical and mental disabilities and to determine the degree and direction of interdependence between lifestyle and self-assessed health status of people with disabilities. Design/Methodology/Approach: We obtained data using the F2F questionnaire technique, using the own survey. We used statistical methods based on analysis of the differentiation and similarity of structures and tests likelihood ratio, chi-square and asymmetric lambda coefficients to study interdependencies between variables. After identifying the variables that influence the likelihood of a positive self-assessment of health, we use logistic regression. Findings:The results obtained indicate the information about how disabled people spend their free time, whether they play a sport, and their views on the opportunity to get a job at high position helps predict the health status of a disabled person. Practical implications: The health condition of disabled people doesn't depend on the type of disability. Factors that determine their health condition concern sports, work, and the form of spending free time. That the type of disability has a statistically significant impact on factors related to education, work, and cultural and social activity. It is easier to predict the state of health of a disabled person based on these factors than the reverse. Originality/Value: Lifestyle is important for self-assessment of health. The general lifestyle questionnaire proposed by Lopez-Fontana et al. (2020) should be complemented with attitude toward work, way of spending leisure time, interpersonal relationship.

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Extra costs of living with a disability: A review and agenda for research

Cited by 241 publications

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Access to social protection among people with disabilities: Evidence from Viet Nam

Access to social protection among people with disabilities: Evidence from Viet Nam

Disability studies and development geography: Empirical connections, theoretical resonances, and future directions

Health Status and Lifestyle of the Mentally and Physically Disabled

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