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The survey shows that disability has a woman’s face since they represent 61 percent of the population with disabilities. /  A.M. Costa Rica wire services photo




Most people with disabilities in Costa Rica
are women and live in poverty, says study



By the A.M. Costa Rica staff

"After knowing the first data of the National Survey on Disability, we can perform a more rigorous work on policies, plans, and public programs. From now on our work will be to generate better-oriented actions in terms of access to health, education or work," said Marvin Rodríguez, Vice President, referring to the first statistics on disability.

The National Institute of Statistics and Census reports that 18.2 percent of the older population of age are people in a situation of disability, that is close to 700,000 people.

The survey shows that disability has a woman’s face since they represent 61 percent of the population with disabilities, while 39.1 percent are men.

The report also stated that women are the primary caregivers for people with disabilities and that 90 percent of them do not receive payment for their work.

According to the data by regions, the highest percentage of people with disabilities live on the Pacific Coast, 24 percent, in the second place is the south zone with 22 percent, the third place is in the North zone with 16 percent and in the last place, is the Caribbean coast with 14 percent.

According to the statistics, more than 50 percent of people with disabilities live in poverty.

"The poverty associated with a disability is the most urgent in light of the new data revealed by the survey; The combination of poverty and disability is a perverse binomial," said Ericka Álvarez, president of the National Disability Council.

Alvarez says that the Ministry of Labor has a program called "Empléate" (works) that encourages companies to hire people with disabilities.

The survey was conducted between October and November of 2018. The research was carried out to include variables such as education, employment, income, health, among others, that people with disabilities have.

Disability is an impairment that may be cognitive, developmental, intellectual, mental, physical, sensory, or some combination of these. Other definitions describe disability as the societal disadvantage arising from such impairments. Disability substantially affects a person's life activities and may be present from birth or occur during a person's lifetime.

According to the World Health Organization, ‘disability’ is an umbrella term, covering impairments, activity limitations, and participation restrictions.

An impairment is a problem in body function or structure; an activity limitation is a difficulty encountered by an individual in executing a task or action; while a participation restriction is a problem experienced by an individual in involvement in life situations.

"Disability is not just a problem, it is a complex phenomenon, reflecting the interaction between features of a person's body and features of the society in which he or she lives," said World Health Organization in its statement.


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