Focus on disability and social development: addressing issues on health, mental health, education, employment and technological advancements

Disability is a universal feature and is found in all societies irrespective of sex, race, religion, colour, creed, region and culture. Currently around 10 per cent of the total world's population, or roughly 650 million people, live with a disability. Eighty per cent of persons with disabilities live in developing countries, according to the United Nations Development Program (UNDP). Disability rate worldwide has increased and the main causes of it have been mainly found as armed conflict, violence, HIV/AIDS and other diseases, birth defects, incorrect treatment or non-treatment, accidents due to inadequate protection at the workplace and in traffic situations stress and alcohol and drug abuse, child labour, malnutrition, and Increase in life span. Persons with disabilities suffer from discrimination throughout the world and are frequently excluded from social, economic and political processes in their societies. In both developed and developing countries, evidence suggests that persons with disabilities are disproportionately represented among the world‘s poor and tend to be poorer than their counterparts without disabilities. The disabled people face many issues and challenges viz. health, employment, educational, technological, marital, political, psychological and social issues etc. Since disabled people face many types of issues, this study seriously intended to explore the nature, magnitude and implications of disability at the individual, family and societal level.