Jones, M;
Saloniki, EC;
(2021)
Exploring the Relationship Between Impairment and Disability in Great Britain: Evidence From the Life Opportunities Survey.
Journal of Disability Policy Studies
10.1177/10442073211021532.
(In press).
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Abstract
Academic and government policy evidence that quantifies the disadvantage experienced by disabled people in the United Kingdom relies on “global” self-reported measures of disability available in large-scale national surveys. Understanding who is captured by such measures and the “process of disablement” is therefore vital. This article applies multivariate regression analysis to nationally representative and uniquely rich data for Great Britain from the Life Opportunities Survey (2009–2011) to investigate the relationship between a well-established measure of activity-limiting disability and the type and severity of impairment. Conditional on personal characteristics, the risk of disability is found to increase with the presence and severity of impairment. It also varies dramatically by impairment type, being highest for those with impairments relating to mobility and mental ill-health, and lowest for impairments relating to vision and hearing.
| Type: | Article |
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| Title: | Exploring the Relationship Between Impairment and Disability in Great Britain: Evidence From the Life Opportunities Survey |
| Open access status: | An open access version is available from UCL Discovery |
| DOI: | 10.1177/10442073211021532 |
| Publisher version: | https://doi.org/10.1177/10442073211021532 |
| Language: | English |
| Additional information: | https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/This article is distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 License (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/) which permits any use, reproduction and distribution of the work without further permission provided the original work is attributed as specified on the SAGE and Open Access pages (https://us.sagepub.com/en-us/nam/open-access-at-sage). |
| Keywords: | Life Opportunities Survey, disability, impairment, functional limitations |
| UCL classification: | UCL UCL > Provost and Vice Provost Offices > School of Life and Medical Sciences UCL > Provost and Vice Provost Offices > School of Life and Medical Sciences > Faculty of Population Health Sciences > Institute of Epidemiology and Health UCL > Provost and Vice Provost Offices > School of Life and Medical Sciences > Faculty of Population Health Sciences > Institute of Epidemiology and Health > Applied Health Research |
| URI: | https://discovery.ucl.ac.uk/id/eprint/10136342 |
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