Abstract
Objective: Identify environmental barriers that affect social inclusion of people with motor impairment.
Materials and methods: We conducted a descriptive study involving 45 adults with lower limb motor impairment. The survey included the following categories: a) socio-demographic, health and environmental characteristics, b) companion or caretaker, c) as-sistive products, d) activities and participation, and e) environmental factors.
Results: 98% of the people belonged to socioeconomic strata 1, 2 and 3, and most of them (53%) are working with salaries that do not exceed the national monthly legal wage in Colombia. The main cause of disability (42%) was violence. 67% had some difficulty to access to the built environment, information and communication. The biggest barriers were access to public buildings (54%) and to technical education (83%).
Conclusions: The multiple barriers that affect social inclusion suggest that this problem must be addressed from the structure and social organization of the environment in which the person is engaged and not just from his/her deficiency.
As in other studies in Colombia, it is confirmed the simultaneity of poverty, violence and disability.
Materials and methods: We conducted a descriptive study involving 45 adults with lower limb motor impairment. The survey included the following categories: a) socio-demographic, health and environmental characteristics, b) companion or caretaker, c) as-sistive products, d) activities and participation, and e) environmental factors.
Results: 98% of the people belonged to socioeconomic strata 1, 2 and 3, and most of them (53%) are working with salaries that do not exceed the national monthly legal wage in Colombia. The main cause of disability (42%) was violence. 67% had some difficulty to access to the built environment, information and communication. The biggest barriers were access to public buildings (54%) and to technical education (83%).
Conclusions: The multiple barriers that affect social inclusion suggest that this problem must be addressed from the structure and social organization of the environment in which the person is engaged and not just from his/her deficiency.
As in other studies in Colombia, it is confirmed the simultaneity of poverty, violence and disability.
| Translated title of the contribution | Identifying environmental barriers that affect social inclusion of people with physical disability in lower limbs |
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| Original language | Spanish |
| Pages (from-to) | 227-237 |
| Number of pages | 12 |
| Journal | Salud Uninorte |
| Volume | 28 |
| Issue number | 2 |
| State | Published - 2012 |
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This output contributes to the following UN Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs)
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SDG 3 Good Health and Well-being -
SDG 16 Peace, Justice and Strong Institutions
Keywords
- International Classification of Functioning
- Disability and Health
- physical disability
- social inclusion
- assistive products
- disabled health
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Diseño conceptual interdisciplinario, a partir de un modelo ampliado del diseño axiomatico, de ayudas tecnicas y tecnologicas para movilidad personal que favorezcan la inclusion social de personas en situacion de discapacidad.
Aguilar Zambrano, J. A. (PI), Chamorro, C. (CoI), Cordoba Andrade, L. D. N. (CoI), Gonzalez Cruz, M. C. (CoI), Hurtado, M. N. (CoI), Valencia, A. (CoI), Valencia Diaz, M. V. (CoI), Vasquez, D. (CoI) & Virgen, A. L. (CoI)
26/03/09 → 30/12/10
Project: Research
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