CAUSES OF DISABILITY IN COLOMBIABy: Nicolás Cortes, Laura Sofia Cobo, Felipe Velasquez

Land Mines• A land mine is an explosive device,

hidden under the ground and it is made to disable or kill the enemies when they step on it. The device may cause damage either by a direct blast or by fragments that are thrown by the blast.

• The name originates from the ancient practice of military mining,. Tunnels were dug under ground where the enemy was located. These killing tunnels ("mines”)were destroyed and all of the people above fell and get injured, then the explosives explode.

Types of land mines

• There are two main types of land mines, the first one is anti-tank mines (AT) and the second is anti-personnel mines (AP). Anti-tank mines are designed to be activated by heavy vehicles like tanks, they are weight 5 kilos which is really heavy for a land mine. They measure almost the same that an average shoe. These kind of mines are really powerful. They have enough power to blow up a whole vehicle and people inside it or close to it. They are normally located on roads, bridges and tracks or places where heavy vehicles go trough.

• Anti-personnel mines are activated more easily than anti tank-mines. They are really small (like a packet of cigarettes) and weight only 50 grams. They can be of any shape colour and size. They are made to kill or injure the enemy.

Types of land mines

How to protect from land mines

• There are few ways to be protected against land mines. One of the ways to protect is wearing a landmine protection suit, that is specially design for professionals that have to go through a land mine field. There are also tanks or cars that can resist powerful mines.

Landmines are responsible for thousands of people without legs or with a disability. Landmines explode and destroy legs and can even kill, few people had have the luck to get through a landmine and be alright. This year there has been 310 victims of landmines: 179 soldiers, 131 civilians. 34 of them had been underage. During 2011, the total number of affected people had been 549. Colombia is the 3rd nation with more landmines, the first two are Camboya and Afganistán.

BIBLIOGRAPHY

http://www.un.org/cyberschoolbus/banmines/resources/minetypes.asp On this page I found the types of mines, which are AT and AP

http://www.tencate.com/5578/TenCate/Advanced-Armour/EMEA/en/home/Solutions/Armour-for-military-vehicles/Protection-against-landmines On this page I found about landmine protection.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Land_mine On this page I found Land Mine information On this page I found information about land mines

Road Injuries in Colombia

• The following information was taken in 2005 - 2007

• All of the following information was collected from death registers, hospital records, funeral records, health surveys, and police reports. Also from the Departamento Administrativo Nacional de Estadísticas (DANE), the Instituto Nacional de Medicina Legal y Ciencias Forenses and Accidentalidad Vial en Colombia published by Fondo de Prevencion Vial.

In 2005, road crashes resulted in 6.351 deaths (in Colombia), showing an annual injury rate of 14.1 deaths per 100.000 people. Almost one million people were victims of non-fatal road crashes.

All injuries in 2005, counting for intentional or not intentional were 34.529 (%18.3) of all deaths in Colombia. Road injuries were the second leading cause of injury or deaths.

In Colombia, the most road injuries happen among males, %87 of the accidents were adults older than 20 years. Road injuries among males rise dramatically in their transition from childhood to young adults.

Graphs of road injuries

Road accidents occur among pedestrians (which means people who walk) and motorcyclist.

Accidents are higher in urban areas than in rural areas, which is about %75 higher.

Men have higher rates of non-fatal road injuries than women. The accidents occur in males between the ages of 15 to 49 years.

BIBLIOGRAPHYhttp://roadinjuries.globalburdenofinjuries.org/colombia Here i got the info, tables and graphs.

Brain Damage

• Brain damage is the destruction or degeneration of brain cells. Brain injuries often create disabilities which can vary in severity. Sometimes with you are born with brain damage other times it is made when you hit your head really hard. Also brain damage may cause coma. Many people can walk or have to stay on a wheel chair for the rest of their life because they are born with brain damage.

firing of a gun

• “bala perdida” is a saying in Colombia, it is something we say whan some one gets accidentally gets hit by a bullet. It happens when a person is in the middle of a fight between gangs. Bullets can kill, or make a person disabled, like when they hit the lumbar vertebra. Also soldiers are common to this cause to be disabled, when they start a fight or when they get shoot by the enemy. This is very common in Colombia, specially in the jungles (because FARC and other rebel forces) and in low class neighbourhoods.

BIBLIOGRAPHYhttp://es.thefreedictionary.com/bala+perdida here I found the meaning of “bala perdida”http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Brain_damage Here I found information about brain damage.http://www.sciencedaily.com/articles/b/brain_damage.htm here I found more information of brain damage

Main causes of diasability in Colombia

There are 4 important reasons in which we obtain the disability here at colombia the first reason is the adquired disease. The adquired disease are the illness or problems that some one has during life it could be present in ilness that affect the nervous system (spine, spinal cord) when an ilness affect this parts of the body normally could be show cuadraplegia and paraplegia. The cuadraplegia is the disease that avoid the movement in the arms and legs and the paraplegia could only be the arms or the legs but not both.

Main causes of disability in Colombia • The second problem in colombia is the traffic accidents. This problem is the

most common in a country as colombia. Many people have been affect by traffic accidents and they have permanent problems as the paraplejia. Normally all this accidents happen in the people that drive a motor cycle, this problem is the most common in colombia but also they have present accidents by people which drive with a high percentage of alcohol and

normally in this problems they end with dead people.

Main causes of dissability in colombia • The next problem is based in the occupational disease, this might happen to people

that are farmers or soldiers that work in the monte or in paramos. The occupational disease in colombia refers to people that work in dangerous zones or that risk there life for win monie . Normally soldiers are the most affected with the occupational disease because they could be affected by violence.

Main causes of disability in colombia • The last cause of disabiulity in colombia is the violence. Here in

colombia we have problems with some groups that want to make revolutions in this country and they want to make it with violence. Las farc is the main revolutionary group in colombia, soldiers of the colombian republic risk there life for end with the revolution, some times this soldiers could be affected by landmines or could be assaulted by bullet impacts.