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Social rank disability

Not only you can come to life with some disability, you can also become disabled because of reasons related to your social rank. As a matter of fact, many social factors increase the possibility of suffering from some kinds of disability. In Spain the possibility to get sick becomes 4 times higher if you are poor. According to evidences, the 10% of the families that earn less than 1000 € per month have at least a family member with disability. Differently, if the monthly income is more than 2500 € only 2,4% of the families have a disabled member. According to the OIE the state aids cannot narrow this gap. A weak knowledge of available services, a difficult access to medical care, and very low standard of life represent the reasons of these data. Whether government and society will keep ignoring all these, a bigger part of the population will be even more marginalized and excluded from the possibility of having a decent life in the future.