The necessity of more comprehensive baseline disaster disability statistics and more effective measurement of rehabilitation outcomes in disaster is emphasized.
These extremely poor households, henceforth ultra poor households, have few or no asset base, are highly vulnerable to any shock (e.g., natural disaster, disability of an income-earner or illnesses involving costly care), and mainly depend on seasonal wage-labour for survival.
In view of the fact that physical injuries and disaster disabilities may additionally contribute to mental health and affect livelihoods and hence economics of the disaster impacts at an individual level, developing standardized outcome measures is mandated.
Concerns over children who are without adequate parental care or at risk of separation due to conflict, natural disasters, disability and poverty, were discussed by a panel of experts convened by the Permanent Mission of Brazil to the United Nations.
As the narrator of "Television" says, "we want major events". When life is complicated, we "want to watch a movie made for TV, which will be simple and easy to understand, even if it involves disaster or disability or disease". Reflecting on my own appetite for catastrophe, I find "Helen and Vi" belatedly interesting, though in reading it I felt a vexed restlessness.
A year after the earthquake, aid for schools is helping girls and boys in rural China finish their studies, regardless of disaster or disability.
Global news Day for children highlights - Xinhua journalists will work with local civil society groups in various countries to produce special profiles of 10 children affected by complex challenges such as armed conflict, environmental degradation, natural disaster poverty, disability and poor access to education and health, to present the human side of the situation of children.
Families caring for children with disabilities remain vulnerable in facing disaster because disabilities are strongly associated with social, structural, and financial disadvantage (AIHW 2009).
A wider use of existing measurement and assessment measures in addition to the development of new ones is required to more effectively measure the impact of physical rehabilitation strategies on disaster-induced disability in individuals and populations following a natural disaster.
Emergency response and recovery efforts to mitigate disaster-related disability by both host national and international responders are significantly challenged by the relative absence of health-related rehabilitation perspective.
This participant suggested that the level of attention given to PWD following the Haiti earthquake contrasted with other major disasters where disability was little discussed in the media or by major aid agencies, remaining a niche concern for specialized organizations.
