Disability In Canada Essay

Disability is an everlasting problem not only in Canada, but also in other countries. As a well-developed country, Canada should take the leading role to prohibit discrimination against people with disabilities and promote more social, economic opportunities for them. According to Pediatric Advanced Life Support, approximately 4.2 million (16.5%) adults in Canada have at least one disability in which 81.7% of them have multiple disabilities today. These disabled people were differentiated in terms of intensity of disability (mild, moderate, severe and very severe) depends on the frequency and severity of the limitations correlated with their impairments. It was estimated that 1,7000,000 people in Canada aged 15 or above had severe or very severe disability. Such problem is especially overwhelming among Aboriginal Canadians with approximately 31.3% of them reporting a disability.
Causes of the economic problem

Malnutrition and impoverishment are major causes of disability. Poor people are particularly susceptible to disability under unsanitary environment, famine, poor workplace and inadequate health care. Under such circumstances, diseases like tuberculosis, polio and disabilities will burst out. There …show more content…
On the other hand, the poverty rate for working people with disabilities was 28.4% compared to 12.4% for those without disabilities reported by the Huffington Post. It addresses the severity of poverty among disabled people. Poverty causes restricted access to medical and preventative care. Insufficient nutrition and hygiene also increase their possibility of disabilities. Especially when most of the food bank clients are disabled people, these canned food is extremely unhealthy and will deteriorate the impairment existed. Thus, disability and poverty are interconnected and they form a vicious cycle. Poverty does cause disability while people with disabilities are more likely to be