Burden of Disability in India (1881–2011)
Journal Title: JOURNAL OF MULTIDISCIPLINARY RESEARCH IN HEALTHCARE - Year 2015, Vol 2, Issue 1
Abstract
It is estimated that roughly in the world 10 percent or 650 million people live with disability while India consist 26.8 million(Census 2011) & 58th round of National s ample s urvey (N ss ), 2002 (18.5million) indicates that around 2 percent of country’s population suffers from disability . t he overreaching aim of this paper is to estimate the pre valence of disability with its type and assess the changes of proportionate disabled population during pre-independence and post-independence period. t he paper essentially explains the manifold increase in the pre valence of disability in post independence period due to the adaption of new definition. t o analyze the prevalence of disability t he s tandardized Index of Diversity ( s ID) which was dev eloped by l ieberson (1969) and Rowland (2003) and further giv en in K.M. Ponnapalli and F.Ram (2010). Paper outcome be said that blindness which continues fluctuated from the colonial periods in India. Concentration of disabled females is more with speech and, hearing whereas males movement and mental disabilities. s IDD index values indicates that all the states and districts ha ve experienced a rising seeing disability and movement disability, but 2011 reveal that prevalence of hearing and movement disability gradually growing. t his index re veals that North- e ast states like s ikkim; Nagaland & Manipur districts are disabled population are direct effect on curv ature of economic. However, there is a need for the much detailed investigation of the demography of disability which could provide insights into the problem and suggest the efforts that are needed to tackle the issue.
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Kalosona Paul , Shrestha Saha
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