Citation

Disler PB, Jacka E, Sayed AR, Rip MR, Hurford S, Collis P. S. Afr. Med. J. 1986; 69(6): 349-352.

Copyright

(Copyright © 1986, South African Medical Association)

DOI

unavailable

PMID

2938278

Abstract

A door-to-door survey to identify the locomotor disabled was carried out on 33.35% of the so-called coloured population in a low socio-economic area of the Cape Peninsula (9112 people). The prevalence rate of locomotor disability was 11.2/1000. The main causes of disability were illness (44.1%) and trauma (41.2%); the former resulted mostly from cerebrovascular accidents (15.7%) and poliomyelitis (15.7%). Of the disabled persons 11.8% were 15 years of age or less, 57.8% between the ages of 16 and 59 years and 30.4% were more than 60 years. Of those in the working-age group 15% were employed. Few of the unemployed had hobbies or interests or had any contact with health or social services.

Language: en