The Human Development Model of Disability, Health and Wellbeing

Mitra, Sophie

doi:10.1057/978-1-137-53638-9_2

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“…As Mont [24] highlights discussions about how to "count" disability often imply that populations can be cleanly divided into people with disabilities and people without disabilities, using a pre-specified cut-off. In fact, disability, from the perspective of functional ability, is better understood as operating on continuum [25,26]. That is, the functional ability of every person varies and whether this constitutes "disability" first depends on the context that disability is being assessed in.…”

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Making Visible the Invisible: Why Disability-Disaggregated Data is Vital to “Leave No-One Behind”

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People with disability make up approximately 15% of the world’s population and are, therefore, a major focus of the ‘leave no-one behind’ agenda. It is well known that people with disabilities face exclusion, particularly in low-income contexts, where 80% of people with disability live. Understanding the detail and causes of exclusion is crucial to achieving inclusion, but this cannot be done without good quality, comprehensive data. Against the background of the Convention for the Rights of Persons with Disabilities in 2006, and the advent of 2015’s 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development there has never been a better time for the drive towards equality of inclusion for people with disability. Governments have laid out targets across seventeen Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs), with explicit references to people with disability. Good quality comprehensive disability data, however, is essential to measuring progress towards these targets and goals, and ultimately their success. It is commonly assumed that there is a lack of disability data, and development actors tend to attribute lack of data as the reason for failing to proactively plan for the inclusion of people with disabilities within their programming. However, it is an incorrect assumption that there is a lack of disability data. There is now a growing amount of disability data available. Disability, however, is a notoriously complex phenomenon, with definitions of disability varying across contexts, as well as variations in methodologies that are employed to measure it. Therefore, the body of disability data that does exist is not comprehensive, is often of low quality, and is lacking in comparability. The need for comprehensive, high quality disability data is an urgent priority bringing together a number of disability actors, with a concerted response underway. We argue here that enough data does exist and can be easily disaggregated as demonstrated by Leonard Cheshire’s Disability Data Portal and other studies using the Washington Group Question Sets developed by the Washington Group on Disability Statistics. Disaggregated data can improve planning and budgeting for reasonable accommodation to realise the human rights of people with disabilities. We know from existing evidence that disability data has the potential to drive improvements, allowing the monitoring and evaluation so essential to the success of the 2030 agenda of ‘leaving no-one behind’.

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Making Visible the Invisible: Why Disability-Disaggregated Data is Vital to “Leave No-One Behind”

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“…The lack of difference between men and women with disabilities stands somewhat in contrast to evidence from studies in other locations, where differences between men and women with disabilities are more apparent. For example, school attendance and attainment is often found to be lower amongst girls with disabilities compared to boys with disabilities [37,38], as is employment for women with disabilities compared to men with disabilities [30,33,37]. The lack of association in this study may reflect limitations of the study's power, as some of the observed differences were close to statistical significance (e.g., employment), or differences in the socio-cultural context of the Maldives compared to other study settings.…”

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No One Left Behind? Comparing Poverty and Deprivation between People with and without Disabilities in the Maldives

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The 2030 Sustainable Development Goals call for the disaggregation of all indicators by disability and other characteristics so as to "leave no one behind" from development progress. Data on disability, however, is acknowledged to be lacking, which is essential for informing policy and planning. Consequently, this study estimates the prevalence of disability in the Maldives and compares indicators of poverty and living conditions between people with and without disabilities, using nationally-representative, population-based data (n = 5363). The prevalence of disability was estimated at 6.8%. Overall, this research finds that people with disabilities are at risk of being left behind from progress across multiple Sustainable Development Goal domains, including in combatting income poverty, food insecurity and exclusion from health, education, work and social participation, and vulnerability to violence. Further, amongst people with disabilities, people with cognitive and mental health impairments, people living outside the capital, Male', and children and working-age adults tend to face the highest levels of deprivation.

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“…Around the world, and when using every measure of poverty, people with disabilities are more likely to live with poverty [10]. While traditional indicators suggest income is the most significant for understanding poverty, more recent multi-dimensional poverty indicators, including education, employment, food security, health among others, recognize greater complexity of poverty and that different aspects of poverty may be different in varying countries [11,12].…”

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Disabilities and Livelihoods: Rethinking a Conceptual Framework

Stienstra

Lee

2019

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Livelihoods, or the means to secure the necessities of life, shape how we live as individuals, families and communities, and our sense of well-being. While discussions of livelihoods have influenced academic discussions and government actions in international development over the past 25 years, few have discussed the implications of a livelihoods approach for people with disabilities in the context of global Northern societies. This paper argues that by using a livelihoods approach, we can recognize the multiple and, at times, conflicting ways that people with disabilities sustain themselves and secure the necessities of life. A livelihoods approach recognizes the agency of individuals, including those with disabilities, in the context of their relationships in households, families and communities, while also identifying the systemic barriers, inequalities and opportunities that shape livelihood choices. Using this approach, we argue, will enable a better understanding of how people with disabilities both survive and thrive, the diverse livelihood choices they make and the implications these choices have for policy decisions.

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The Human Development Model of Disability, Health and Wellbeing

Cited by 33 publications

References 40 publications

Making Visible the Invisible: Why Disability-Disaggregated Data is Vital to “Leave No-One Behind”

Making Visible the Invisible: Why Disability-Disaggregated Data is Vital to “Leave No-One Behind”

No One Left Behind? Comparing Poverty and Deprivation between People with and without Disabilities in the Maldives

Disabilities and Livelihoods: Rethinking a Conceptual Framework

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