The social marginalization and "invisibility" of children with disabilities is compounded by poverty, the absence of an enabling policy environment, "medicalized" definitions of disability, poor data collection systems, lack of access to services, limited parent education and weak mechanisms to support families.
The potential vulnerability of persons with disabilities is compounded because the incidence of caries and periodontal disease in people with special needs is higher than in the general population [ 3, 15, 16], and because these patients should be seen by dentists who understand their needs [ 17].
While both boys and girls make up these excluded groups, the constraints that are experienced – be it due to extreme poverty, displacement or disability – are compounded and multiplied when they are experienced by girls.
Even the most developed and well-resourced nations have medically underserved regions and communities where the presence of disability is compounded by inequities in social determinants of health.
The report documents how struggles with complex problems such as disability, mental illness, debt and stigma are compounded by a welfare service whose excesses are described by one mother as "state-sponsored human rights abuse".
"There is something about the plight that faces individuals with disabilities, including those with intellectual disabilities, that is compounded by an entrenched stigma that has endured, unjustly, for centuries and centuries.
In addition, the railroad's disability problem is compounded by labor contracts allowing for retirement as early as age 50 on generous terms.
The vulnerability of women with disability to violence is compounded by economic dependency; social isolation; the perception that women with disability will not report violence; women's difficulties in physically defending themselves; and their exclusion from violence prevention programs [ 12, 19– 219.
The disability problem has been compounded by labor contracts that allow longtime workers to retire with a pension as early as age 50 and by a tangle of negotiated rules that allow workers to reap four days of pay for a single day's work.
The complex interrelationship between pain, cortical reorganization, disability, and abnormal motor behaviour is compounded by the implication of psychological factors associated with chronic pain and injury.
