Abstract

CARDONA ARANGO, Doris; AGUDELO MARTINEZ, Alejandra; RESTREPO MOLINA, Lucas  and  SEGURA CARDONA, Ángela María. EDUCATION, HEALTH AND EMPLOYMENT OF PEOPLE WITH SOME SORT OF LIMITATION. MEDELLIN, 2008. Hacia promoc. Salud [online]. 2012, vol.17, n.1, pp.77-91. ISSN 0121-7577.

Objective: To describe the social, demographic characteristics and the education, health, and employment components of people with some kind of limitation in the city of Medellin, 2008. Materials and Methods: descriptive transversal study with secondary data source of 4,283 people with some type of limitation (sensory, physical, mental or speech) recorded in the 2008 Quality of Life Survey. The univariate and bivariate analysis was carried out by sex and district, and it was accompanied by statistical tests. Results: of those people with some kind of limitation, 53.2% were women, 46 years old average, 84.5% are part of the health system, 26.2% are permanently disabled to work and 78% of these people with some kind of limitation did not receive any income in 2008. The most prevalent limitation was the sensory limitation (48.6%), followed by physical limitation (39.3%), mental limitation (26.3%) and speech limitation (14.4%). These last ones showed a 38.4% illiteracy and 35% of the physically limited presented school dropout. Conclusions: A direct relationship between age and the presence of a disability was evident. In addition to this there is economical, educational and health factors deteriorate their quality of life and increase their vulnerability.

Keywords : Disabled persons; education; health; employment; mobility limitation.

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