Volume 37, Issue 3, October 2022, Pages 611–621
Maïmouna Ymba1, Kuicédouhé Evodie Kone2, and Stéphane Désiré N’Doli3
1 Institut de Géographie Tropicale (IGT), Université Félix Houphouët Boigny-Cocody, Abidjan, 09 B.P. 2602 Abidjan 09, Côte d’Ivoire
2 Institut de Géographie Tropicale (IGT), Université Félix Houphouët Boigny-Cocody, Abidjan, 09 B.P. 2602 Abidjan 09, Côte d’Ivoire
3 Institut de Géographie Tropicale (IGT), Université Félix Houphouët Boigny-Cocody, Abidjan, 09 B.P. 2602 Abidjan 09, Côte d’Ivoire
Original language: English
Copyright © 2022 ISSR Journals. This is an open access article distributed under the Creative Commons Attribution License, which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited.
The availability of quality health care facilities is essential to care for disabled populations such as Deaf people. Indeed, these populations are much more vulnerable to chronic diseases. The city of Abidjan abounds in dense and diverse health care offers but is unevenly distributed in the city. The goal of this paper is to make an exploratory study on the adequacy between the health care offer and the healthcare needs of deaf people. In other words, it will be a question of analyzing the aptitude of the care structures to take care of the deaf people concerning their needs in health care. From socio-demographic and sanitary data coming from the general census of the population and the habitat of the National Institute of Statistics and the database of the direction in charge of the Deaf people; a descriptive and cartographic statistical analysis was realized. Our results show that in the care structures, there is no health policy for medical care for deaf people. The staff is not trained in sign language. Only 1% of the staff can communicate with deaf patients. However, their need for care is effective with, for example, more than 62.2% of the deaf people surveyed having requests for care in general medicine. We, therefore, deduce a mismatch between the supply of care and the health care needs of deaf people.
Author Keywords: Abidjan, care offer, care needs, deaf person, care.
Maïmouna Ymba1, Kuicédouhé Evodie Kone2, and Stéphane Désiré N’Doli3
1 Institut de Géographie Tropicale (IGT), Université Félix Houphouët Boigny-Cocody, Abidjan, 09 B.P. 2602 Abidjan 09, Côte d’Ivoire
2 Institut de Géographie Tropicale (IGT), Université Félix Houphouët Boigny-Cocody, Abidjan, 09 B.P. 2602 Abidjan 09, Côte d’Ivoire
3 Institut de Géographie Tropicale (IGT), Université Félix Houphouët Boigny-Cocody, Abidjan, 09 B.P. 2602 Abidjan 09, Côte d’Ivoire
Original language: English
Copyright © 2022 ISSR Journals. This is an open access article distributed under the Creative Commons Attribution License, which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited.
Abstract
The availability of quality health care facilities is essential to care for disabled populations such as Deaf people. Indeed, these populations are much more vulnerable to chronic diseases. The city of Abidjan abounds in dense and diverse health care offers but is unevenly distributed in the city. The goal of this paper is to make an exploratory study on the adequacy between the health care offer and the healthcare needs of deaf people. In other words, it will be a question of analyzing the aptitude of the care structures to take care of the deaf people concerning their needs in health care. From socio-demographic and sanitary data coming from the general census of the population and the habitat of the National Institute of Statistics and the database of the direction in charge of the Deaf people; a descriptive and cartographic statistical analysis was realized. Our results show that in the care structures, there is no health policy for medical care for deaf people. The staff is not trained in sign language. Only 1% of the staff can communicate with deaf patients. However, their need for care is effective with, for example, more than 62.2% of the deaf people surveyed having requests for care in general medicine. We, therefore, deduce a mismatch between the supply of care and the health care needs of deaf people.
Author Keywords: Abidjan, care offer, care needs, deaf person, care.
How to Cite this Article
Maïmouna Ymba, Kuicédouhé Evodie Kone, and Stéphane Désiré N’Doli, “Health care supply about the health needs of deaf people in Abidjan,” International Journal of Innovation and Applied Studies, vol. 37, no. 3, pp. 611–621, October 2022.
