Disability, Health and Human Development

Sophie Mitra is Professor of Economics at Fordham University, USA. She is co-editor of the series Palgrave Studies in Disability and International Development, Fellow of the Human Development and Capability Association, and Senior research associate at the Center for International Policy Studies at Fordham.

• Chapter 1: Introduction.- Chapter 2: The Human Development Model of Disability, Health and Wellbeing.- Chapter 3: Measurement, Data and Context.- Chapter 4: Prevalence of Functional Difficulties.- Chapter 5: Functional Difficulties and Inequalities through a Static Lens.- Chapter 6: Dynamics of Functional Difficulties and Wellbeing.- Chapter 7: Main Results and Implications.