Aleksandra Posarac

TL;DR: In this article, the authors used the first time internationally comparable data to draw an economic profile of persons with disabilities in 15 developing countries and found that disability is associated with higher multidimensional poverty as well as lower educational attainment, lower employment rates, and higher medical expenditures.

TL;DR: This study presents a snapshot of economic and poverty situation of working-age persons with disabilities and their households in fifteen developing countries and gives results of an analysis of multidimensional poverty across disability status.

TL;DR: In this article, the authors compared national prevalence and wealth-related inequality in disability across a large number of countries from all income groups, and found that disability prevalence was positively associated with wealth inequality.

TL;DR: There is an urgent need for data and methodologies that can identify how social, biological and other factors separately contribute to the health decrements facing men and women as they age.

TL;DR: The impact of screeners on disability rates is demonstrated, to challenge the usual exclusion of persons with mild and moderate disability from disability surveys and to demonstrate the advantage of using an a posteriori cut-off.