Annals of Rehabilitation Medicine

Original Article: J Korean Acad Rehabil Med. 1998;22(1):84-92.; A Survey of the Prevalence of the Physically Disabled in the Rural Community.; Kim, Hyun Bae , Park, Si Bog , Lee, Sang Gun , Lee, Kang Mok , Shin, Young Jeon , Choi, Bo Youl; ¹Department of Rehabilitation Medicine, College of Medicine, Hanyang University, Seoul, Korea.
²Department of Preventive Medicine, College of Medicine, Hanyang University, Seoul, Korea.

The purpose of this study were to obtain the prevalence of the physically disabled order as a basic data for the planning of Community-Based Rehabilitation in a rural community and to evaluate the seventy of the physically disabled by according to the physical disability grade.

The total residents in the community were surveyed to in May 1996. The prevalence of the physically disabled was 6.92% of the total population. The male: female ratio was 1:0.7. The most freguent age for the on set of physical disability was sixties and this group represented 35.5% of all physical disabilities. The majority of the physically disabled was graded an 10 th, 11 th, 12 th grade.

The prevalence of the physically disabled in this study was higher than that a the previous study due to the inclurion of more mild disability groups were important in the prevalence of the physically disabled.

Keywords :Prevalence, Physically disabled, Community-based rehabilitation