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Impact of the timing, type and severity of disability on the subjective well-being of individuals with disabilities
- Author:
- UPPAL Sharanjit
- Journal article citation:
- Social Science and Medicine, 63(2), July 2006, pp.525-539.
- Publisher:
- Elsevier
Despite the existence of a large volume of literature on subjective well-being (SWB) of the general population, very few studies have focused on individuals with disabilities. The present study uses data on 24,036 Canadians with disabilities to investigate factors affecting their SWB. It found that SWB, measured here by level of happiness, decreases with severity of disability but is independent of the type of physical disability. Those born with a disability are likely to be happier as compared to those disabled later on in life. Per capita family income has no effect on happiness. However, unemployment decreases happiness. Happiness is found to be U shaped in age, bottoming out around 40 years of age. Some of these results vary when the sample is split according to the timing, type or severity of disability.
Back to life
- Author:
- JACKSON Catherine
- Journal article citation:
- Mental Health Today, December 2006, pp.16-17.
- Publisher:
- Pavilion
- Place of publication:
- Hove
The Coventry Client Support Unit is currently working to help people with health problems and disabilities, including mental health and learning disabilities, back into employment, though its Healthy Horizons project. The four week programme of group and individual work has now been extended to 12 weeks. The author profiles the work and success of the Unit which was winner of the NIMHE Positive Practice 2005 award for diversity,
The employment rates of disabled people
- Author:
- BERTHOUD Richard
- Publisher:
- Corporate Document Services; Great Britain. Department for Work and Pensions
- Publication year:
- 2006
- Pagination:
- 94p., bibliog.
- Place of publication:
- London
This report maintains that there is no clear dividing line between disabled people who can work and those who cannot. This highlights the difficulty of finding a fair and effective way of dividing disabled benefit claimants into two streams. The study also reveals that disabled people’s job prospects are strongly influenced by the detailed characteristics of their impairments. But they are much less disadvantaged by their impairments if they had a good education and live in a prosperous area. The research was motivated by a contrast: between the intensity of the policy interest in the economic position of disabled people and the lack of detailed understanding of the relationship between disability and employment. The study makes use of a unique survey, which describes the details of people’s medical conditions and the type and severity of their impairments. Three sets of disability characteristics are important: condition; type of impairment; and severity. These three packages of characteristics make a significant contribution to an explanation of the probability of being employed across the working-age population as a whole, and especially to an explanation of variations within the disabled group. What the research does not show is whether impairments reduce people’s capacity to work, or whether they increase employers’ (potentially discriminatory) reluctance to hire them.
WORKSTEP evaluation case studies: exploring the design, delivery and performance of the WORKSTEP programme
- Authors:
- PURVIS Ann, LOWREY James, DOBBS Lynn
- Publisher:
- Corporate Document Services; Great Britain. Department for Work and Pensions
- Publication year:
- 2006
- Pagination:
- 178p., bibliog.
- Place of publication:
- London
WORKSTEP provides job support to over 26,000 disabled people who face more complex barriers to getting and keeping a job, but who can work effectively with the right support. It enables eligible disabled people to realise their full potential to work within a commercial environment, giving them, whenever possible, an opportunity to progress into open employment. The programme also offers practical assistance to employers.