This open access book introduces the human development model to define disability and map its links with health and wellbeing, based on Sens capability approach. The author uses panel survey data with internationally comparable questions on disability for Ethiopia, Malawi, Tanzania and Uganda. It presents evidence on the prevalence of disability and its strong and consistent association with multidimensional poverty, mortality, economic insecurity and deprivations in education, morbidity and employment.?It shows that disability needs to be considered from multiple angles including aging, gender, health and poverty. Ultimately, this study makes a call for inclusion and prevention interventions as solutions to the deprivations associated with impairments and health conditions.?
1 Introduction
1.1 Motivation
1.2 Research questions and scope of the book
1.3 Book overview
2 The Human Development Model of Disability, Health and Wellbeing
2.1 The Capability Approach and Disability
2.2 The Human development model
2.3 Other disability models
2.4 Comparison of the human development model to other models
2.5 Conclusion
3 Measurement, Data and Context
3.1 Implementing the human development model
3.2 Data
3.3 Country context
4 Prevalence of Functional Difficulties
4.1 Literature on disability prevalence in LMICs
4.2 Methodology
4.3 Prevalence at the individual level
4.4 Prevalence at the household level
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