Spatial distribution and clustering of the proportion of disabled individuals by districts in Punjab Authors Masood Ali Shaikh Independent Consultant, Karachi, Pakistan. DOI: https://doi.org/10.47391/JPMA.23-71 Abstract Disabilities are globally endemic and will increase with population ageing and ubiquitous prevalence of noncommunicable diseases. The Pakistan Social and Living Standards Measurement survey conducted in 2019-20 is the only district-level representative survey that provides proportion of disabled individuals. The survey used a standardized and validated six-questions from the ‘Washington Group Questions’ that identify functional disabilities pertaining to difficulty in the domains of sight, hearing, walking/climbing steps, remembering/ concentrating, self-care (washing/dressing), and communicating/being understood. Disabilities were more common in men in both urban and rural areas of districts. Continue... Downloads Full Text Article Published 2023-09-13 How to Cite Masood Ali Shaikh. (2023). Spatial distribution and clustering of the proportion of disabled individuals by districts in Punjab. Journal of the Pakistan Medical Association, 73(10), 2077–2082. https://doi.org/10.47391/JPMA.23-71 More Citation Formats ACM ACS APA ABNT Chicago Harvard IEEE MLA Turabian Vancouver Download Citation Endnote/Zotero/Mendeley (RIS) BibTeX Issue Vol. 73 No. 10 (2023): OCTOBER Section SHORT COMMUNICATION License Copyright (c) 2023 Journal of the Pakistan Medical Association This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License.