The Magnitude of disability in Colombia: an approach to its determinants

Abstract

In the last three decades many methods havebeen proposed in order to calculate the world’shealth condition, in terms of knowing the wholeand particular burden of morbidity and disabilityand to estimate the efficacy of the interventionsmade in public health. In Colombia, the most significantprogress made in terms of disability is the“Registry for Locating and Characterize Peoplewith Disability”, made by the DANE1 in 2003.The investigation used the data from the registryand analyzed the contextual environmental,personal and social factors in the CIF2, in order toidentify which were the determinants of disability.A secondary analysis comes from the data from86.622 registries (DANE (3), 2005-2006), from thetwenty sectors contained in the Distrito Capital deBogotá. The variables were selected by convenience,following empiric referents of the determinantfactors for the CIF (2) that were related to the registrymodules about localization and residence,personal identification, characterization and originof the disability, health, education and participation.Frequency distributions were obtained inpercentage and absolute values for each variable.The global analysis for cluster of personal and environmentalfactors suggests that the latter have abigger weight in the generation and exacerbationof the disability, as they answer to determinantsrelated to conditions and ways of living associatedwith services, systems and politics.

Keywords

• Disability
• social exclusion