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Title: | Inequality in disability in Bangladesh | Authors: | Tareque Md.I. Begum S. Saito Y. |
Keywords: | adolescent adult age distribution aged article Bangladesh chi square test child controlled study demography disability economic aspect educational status female health care cost health disparity health survey household human income inequality injury logistic regression analysis major clinical study male marriage poverty preschool child prevalence principal component analysis probability school child sensitivity analysis sex difference social status very elderly wealth disabled person family size middle aged poverty retrospective study young adult Adolescent Adult Aged Bangladesh Child Child, Preschool Disabled Persons Family Characteristics Female Humans Male Middle Aged Poverty Retrospective Studies Young Adult |
Issue Date: | 2014 | Citation: | Tareque Md.I., Begum S., Saito Y. (2014). Inequality in disability in Bangladesh. PLoS ONE 9 (7) : e103681. ScholarBank@NUS Repository. https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0103681 | Rights: | Attribution 4.0 International | Abstract: | Objective: To investigate inequality in disability in Bangladesh. Methods: The study used both household level and individual level data from a large nationally representative data set, Bangladesh's Household Income and Expenditure Survey - 2010. Principal component analysis was used to construct a wealth index based on household assets from household level data. Then, using data from 49,809 individuals aged 5 years and over, chi-square tests and logistic regression were performed to test the association between wealth level and disability. Findings: Women and older people are significantly more likely to report having disabilities than men and younger people. For middle and rich families, respectively, there is a 14 percent lower likelihood of reporting disabilities than for poor families. Changes in the probability of having disabilities are linear with increasing wealth. In addition, the study identifies some significant factors affecting disability, namely, age, sex, education, marital status, and place of residence including divisional differences. Conclusion: In Bangladesh, worse health among the poor argues for policies prioritizing this group while at the same time giving special attention to women and the elderly. © 2014 Tareque et al. | Source Title: | PLoS ONE | URI: | https://scholarbank.nus.edu.sg/handle/10635/161395 | ISSN: | 1932-6203 | DOI: | 10.1371/journal.pone.0103681 | Rights: | Attribution 4.0 International |
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