1Associate Professor, Community Medicine, Jubilee Mission Medical College & Research Institute, Thrissur
2Assistant Professor, Community Medicine, Dr SMCSI Medical College, Karakonam
3Prof & HOD, Community Medicine, Dr SMCSI Medical College, Karakonam
*Corresponding author: Dr Sandhya GI Associate Professor, Community Medicine Jubilee Mission Medical College & Research Institute Thrissur, Kerala
Online published on 11 April, 2017.
People with disabilities are marginalized population and health standards are low compared to the general population of Kerala. Distributions of social determinants of health are important factors which control health status of a population
Education, income and occupation of people with disability were low compared to the people without disability. 22% of the people with disability were illiterate where as 2.5% of the people without disability were illiterate. Most of the people with disability were lacking higher education. 75.5% of the people with disability belonged to lower SES group. Among the various disability type people with hearing impairment were having poorly distributed social determinants of health.
This study has shown that social determinants of health were poorly distributed in people with disability compared to the general population. Steps should be taken to improve the distribution of health determinants among people with disability which ultimately improve health of people with disability.
Disability, social determinants, locomotor disability, socio economic status
