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Poverty and musculoskeletal impairment in Rwanda by Dorothea Rischewski; Hannah Kuper; Oluwarantimi Atijosan; Victoria Simms; Mireia Jofret-Bonet; Allen Foster; Christopher Lavy is a Medicine article available to read on EtoBox.

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The recently adopted UN Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities acknowledges the need to address social exclusion and poverty of persons with disabilities. However, policy makers, especially in low-income countries, often lack information about the socioeconomic situation of this vulnerable group of society. This study aimed to assess the association between poverty and musculoskeletal impairment (MSI) in Rwanda. A nationwide population-based matched case-control study was undertaken in Rwanda. Data were collected on education, literacy, employment, household expenditure and assets for 345 cases and 532 matched controls. Conditional logistic regression was performed, and the results indicated that adults with MSI in Rwanda are more likely to have no employment (odds ratio (OR) = 3.3, 95% CI 2.1-5.2) while children with MSI are less likely to attend school (OR = 0.4, 95% CI 0.2-0.9). Cases with MSI are disadvantaged vis-à-vis housing conditions and household size, potentially indicating crowding. However, cases with MSI were not poorer than controls in terms of assets or expenditure. These data suggest that increased efforts should be undertaken in Rwanda in order to e

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Author

Dorothea Rischewski; Hannah Kuper; Oluwarantimi Atijosan; Victoria Simms; Mireia Jofret-Bonet; Allen Foster; Christopher Lavy

Publisher

Elsevier Science; Oxford University Press; Oxford University Press (OUP); ScienceOpen (ISSN 0035-9203)

Published

2008

Language

EN

Field

Medicine (Health Sciences)