Disability in low-income countries: Issues and implications

Disability and Rehabilitation

Volumn 31, Issue 14, 2009, Pages 1170-1180

  Parnes, Penny ^a   Cameron, Debra ^a   Christie, Nancy ^a   Cockburn, Lynn ^a   Hashemi, Goli ^a,b   Yoshida, Karen ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TORONTO   (Canada)

^b BAYLOR HEALTH CARE SYSTEM   (United States)

Author keywords

Childyouth; Conflictnatural disaster; Education; Gender; Health; Human rights; International development; Low income countries; Poverty

Indexed keywords

CLINICAL TRIAL; CONFLICT; CULTURAL FACTOR; DEVELOPING COUNTRY; DISABILITY; EDUCATION; GENDER; GOVERNMENT; HEALTH; HUMAN; HUMAN RIGHTS; IMMIGRANT; LOWEST INCOME GROUP; MULTICENTER STUDY; NATURAL DISASTER; NONHUMAN; ORGANIZATION; POVERTY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REVIEW; STIGMA; ARTICLE; DISABLED PERSON; HEALTH CARE DELIVERY; HEALTH STATUS; NUTRITIONAL STATUS; STATISTICS;

DISABLED PERSONS; HEALTH SERVICES ACCESSIBILITY; HEALTH STATUS; HUMANS; NUTRITIONAL STATUS; POVERTY; WORLD HEALTH;

EID: 70350437855     PISSN: 09638288     EISSN: 14645165     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/09638280902773778     Document Type: Review

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