Objective Our objective was to quantify disability prevalence among older adults of low-and
middle-income countries, and measure socio-demographic distribution of disability. Methods …

Introduction: Unemployment is one of the major challenges facing persons with disabilities
worldwide. Persons with disabilities experience significantly high rates of unemployment …

An analysis of data from the Joint Canada/United States Survey of Health (JCUSH), allows
us to compare prevalence estimates that result from four different question sets designed to …

The Disability Common Fund (DCF) is a social protection program aimed at alleviating
poverty among persons with disabilities in Ghana. Since its introduction, little has been done …

The 2011 Census has confirmed the ageing of the Jamaican population. The over 60-year
old population has increased while the under 15-year old population has decreased. Other …

Untitled Page 1 Page 2 1 Auteurs Aude Brus Handicap International Coordinatrice des études
techniques et des recherches scientifiques Lisa Danquah London School of Hygiene and …

Over the last two decades social vulnerability has emerged as a major area of study, with
increasing attention to the study of vulnerable populations. Generally, the elderly are among …

Social protection policies have been tools for fighting social exclusion, inequality and
reducing poverty incidence among vulnerable populations in developing countries. In this …

From the past to the present, people have been exposed to very different kinds of disasters,
and it is evident that women, children, the elderly and the disabled are the groups most …

The 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development (United Nations [UN], 2015) makes an
explicit call to “leave no one behind” in the path towards sustainable development. This …