Stressors associated with the COVID‐19 pandemic, disability, and mental health: Considerations from the Intermountain West

G Ciciurkaite, G Marquez‐Velarde… - Stress and …, 2022 - Wiley Online Library
The deleterious mental health effects associated with the COVID‐19 pandemic are
increasingly apparent, however, questions remain about the extent to which pandemic …

Disability and poverty in developing countries: A snapshot from the World Health Survey

S Mitra, A Posarac, BC Vick - World Bank social protection working …, 2011 - papers.ssrn.com
The association between disability and poverty has been noted intuitively, although there is
little systematic evidence to support this claim, mainly due to a lack of quality data on …

Adaptation to climate change or non-climatic stressors in semi-arid regions? Evidence of gender differentiation in three agrarian districts of Ghana

A Ahmed, ET Lawson, A Mensah, C Gordon… - Environmental …, 2016 - Elsevier
With the increasing impacts of climate change in Africa, a relationship between rainfall and
yields in semi-arid Ghana has been observed. Drawing insights from three agrarian …

Material Hardship, Poverty, and Disability Among Working‐Age Adults*

P She, GA Livermore - Social Science Quarterly, 2007 - Wiley Online Library
Objectives. We used data from the 1996 panel of the Survey of Income and Program
Participation to examine the extent to which working‐age people with disabilities experience …

More likely to be poor whatever the measure: Working‐age persons with disabilities in the United States

DL Brucker, S Mitra, N Chaitoo… - Social Science …, 2015 - Wiley Online Library
Objective This article examines whether disability is a correlate of poverty when poverty is
measured using (1) the official poverty measure;(2) the supplemental poverty measure …

Food insecurity and disability in the United States

CM Heflin, CE Altman, LL Rodriguez - Disability and Health Journal, 2019 - Elsevier
Background Households with a disabled adult are disproportionately food insecure, yet the
mechanisms linking food insecurity to disability are under-specified. Objective To develop …

Economics of disability

S Mitra, M Palmer - Handbook of Labor, Human Resources and Population …, 2023 - Springer
Disability is remarkably common: It is estimated that one in six adults globally have some
disability. Disability affects, and is influenced by, economic wellbeing. After reviewing …

Interventions to improve the labour market situation of adults with physical and/or sensory disabilities in low‐and middle‐income countries: a systematic review

J Tripney, A Roulstone, C Vigurs… - Campbell Systematic …, 2015 - Wiley Online Library
BACKGROUND Disability is a development issue, with widespread poverty, inequality and
violation of human rights. Recent estimates suggest that more than one billion people are …

Role of public transportation as job access mode: Lessons from survey of people with disabilities in New Jersey

A Lubin, D Deka - Transportation research record, 2012 - journals.sagepub.com
Transportation barriers are often the reason for the discrepancy in the employment rate
between people with disabilities and others, yet little information about the transportation …

Coping strategies and associated factors among people with physical disabilities for psychological distress in Ethiopia

GT Desalegn, TA Zeleke, S Shumet, Y Mirkena… - BMC Public Health, 2023 - Springer
Background Coping strategies are frequently used among individuals with physical
disabilities when they face adversities. Low-and middle-income countries are not …