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Wednesday, April 29, 2009
Sadrivaan A and B (The Hilton Istanbul Hotel )
Background:
The people of health status has not been effected only by physically and mentally ability. Many more factors, social, governmental, economic etc. contribute to health profile.
A person’s attitudes, socio- demographic, physical, psychological status are contribute to their health. Therefore, this study was retrospective in design and the purpose was to evaluate disability and socio- demographic profiles of the disabled people attending to have disability identity card.
Methods:
In order to evaluate the information on disability status, socio- demographic, employment/ or unemployment profile of disabled people residing in Anatolia side of Istanbul who has applied to take the disability identity card, it has been examined their recorded file in the period January 1, 2003 to July 31, 2006.
Results:
This study included 1904 ( M/ F: 1413 / 491) people with disability. Approximately 56.1 % of them was aged between 26-44 years and over.
A considerable percentage (58.2%) of the study group had never married, 68.6 % was literate; 40.5% had received primary school education; 77.8% had unemployment , %32.1 were without health insurance and 92.2 % had never participated to any vocational training course. Among these, 33.0% have orthopedically disability, 27.9% have mentally disability, 24.9% have chronic illness. Although the majority ( 54.6 %) was partially dependent, 39.4% was independent in daily living activities (ADL)
Conclusions:
The population rate not in labor force of the study group was 77.8%, Although the study group was dependent or independent in ADL, unemployment rate was considerable high in the study group. It was concluded that our study group, disabled people has been turned to handicapped people, because of inefficient social and health policy. Therefore, it is an important task to reduce the rate of unemployment among the disabled people by social and health policy.
The people of health status has not been effected only by physically and mentally ability. Many more factors, social, governmental, economic etc. contribute to health profile.
A person’s attitudes, socio- demographic, physical, psychological status are contribute to their health. Therefore, this study was retrospective in design and the purpose was to evaluate disability and socio- demographic profiles of the disabled people attending to have disability identity card.
Methods:
In order to evaluate the information on disability status, socio- demographic, employment/ or unemployment profile of disabled people residing in Anatolia side of Istanbul who has applied to take the disability identity card, it has been examined their recorded file in the period January 1, 2003 to July 31, 2006.
Results:
This study included 1904 ( M/ F: 1413 / 491) people with disability. Approximately 56.1 % of them was aged between 26-44 years and over.
A considerable percentage (58.2%) of the study group had never married, 68.6 % was literate; 40.5% had received primary school education; 77.8% had unemployment , %32.1 were without health insurance and 92.2 % had never participated to any vocational training course. Among these, 33.0% have orthopedically disability, 27.9% have mentally disability, 24.9% have chronic illness. Although the majority ( 54.6 %) was partially dependent, 39.4% was independent in daily living activities (ADL)
Conclusions:
The population rate not in labor force of the study group was 77.8%, Although the study group was dependent or independent in ADL, unemployment rate was considerable high in the study group. It was concluded that our study group, disabled people has been turned to handicapped people, because of inefficient social and health policy. Therefore, it is an important task to reduce the rate of unemployment among the disabled people by social and health policy.
Learning Objectives: 1-To determine the distribution of the socio- demographic , employment profile , disability status among disabled people 2-To compare our out comes with Turkish Disability Survey and Literature
Sub-Theme: Lessons learned from community-based public health research