Distribution of Disabled Persons in World’s Most Populous State
Journal Title: National Journal of Community Medicine - Year 2018, Vol 9, Issue 11
Abstract
Background Data on disability is essential for the government to pre-pare policies, assign sufficient re-sources and apply appropriate strategies. We aimed to approxi-mate the prevalence of disability and express the forms of disability by age, gender, residence and dis-tricts in Uttar Pradesh, (UP) India. Methods We analyzed the 2011 Census data of Uttar Pradesh. Disa-bility rates per 100 000 population were calculated. Results There were 41, 57,514 disa-bled individuals in UP in 2011 out of total 19,98,12,341 population ,disability rate of 2081 per 100 000 population. Disability in hearing, seeing and movement individually accounted for 25%, 18% and 16% of the total disability, respectively. Disability rates increased as age ad-vanced with the higher rate of 4276 per 100 000 among people aged 60 years and above. The disability rates were higher in males. Higher disa-bility rates were also observed among illiterates (2331 per 100 000).Widowed, divorced and sepa-rated were having highest disability rate of 4529 per 100000. Literate, currently married and working populations had lower disability rates. Conclusions Physical or mental disability was observed in 2.1% of the population of Uttar Pradesh. Re-search is necessary to identify un-derlying causes and interventions to reduce the burden of disability in the state.
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Vaishali K Shrote, Kishor P Brahmapurkar
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