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Main Author: Mónica Pinilla-Roncancio
Format: Artículo científico
Language:en
Published: Universidad Nacional de Colombia 2015
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Online Access:https://www.redalyc.org/articulo.oa?id=576363527014
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  • Disability and poverty: two related conditions. A review of the literature Mónica Pinilla-Roncancio Medicina Poverty Latin America (MeSH) People with disabilities The relationship between disability and poverty has been recognised in the literature since the 1990s. Empirical evidence supporting the existence of this relationship has increased in the last decade; however, there is still a lack of knowledge of how these two conditions interact and what the causal mechanisms that participate in the creation of this relationship are. This article aims to explore how the concepts of disability and poverty are related and it analyses the bidirectional relationship between these two conditions, how it is mediated by social exclusion and what empirical evidence supports this relationship around the world and in Latin America (LA). 2015 artículo científico 2357-3848 https://www.redalyc.org/articulo.oa?id=576363527014 en http://www.redalyc.org/revista.oa?id=5763 Revista de la Facultad de Medicina application/pdf Universidad Nacional de Colombia Revista de la Facultad de Medicina (Colombia) Num.1 Sup Vol.63