Monitoring disability inclusion: Setting a baseline for South Africa

African Journal of Disability

 
 
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Title Monitoring disability inclusion: Setting a baseline for South Africa
 
Creator Suich, Helen Schneider, Marguerite
 
Subject — disability inclusion; South Africa; disability severity; psychosocial disability; monitoring; progressive realisation
Description Background: The progressive realisation of disability inclusion requires political will and commitment, and comprehensive monitoring is necessary to give a clear understanding of what needs to be addressed and to highlight the gaps and barriers to the achievement of social inclusion of people with disabilities.Objectives: This article uses an existing dataset to present a baseline assessment of inclusion for men and women with no, mild or moderate disability severity and with no or moderate affect difficulties in South Africa.Methods: An existing dataset, capturing individual-level data for 8499 individuals, collected in 2019 across South Africa was analysed. Variables were utilised to represent aspects of nine domains of disability inclusion, and outcomes were compared using chi-squared tests (with Bonferroni adjustments) for groups categorised by disability severity and gender, and for affect severity and gender.Results: Overall, inclusion levels declined with increasing disability severity, and there were fewer differences in inclusion levels between those with and without affect difficulties than for those with functioning difficulties (as measured using the Washington Group on Disability Statistics’ Short Set of six questions on functioning).Conclusions: The article concludes by discussing several approaches to using the data to design policy responses, each of which results in a different range of domains that may initially be prioritised and targeted.
 
Publisher AOSIS
 
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Date 2022-05-27
 
Type info:eu-repo/semantics/article info:eu-repo/semantics/publishedVersion — —
Format text/html application/epub+zip text/xml application/pdf application/pdf
Identifier 10.4102/ajod.v11i0.1020
 
Source African Journal of Disability; Vol 11 (2022); 12 pages 2226-7220 2223-9170
 
Language eng
 
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Rights Copyright (c) 2022 Helen Suich, Marguerite Schneider https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0
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