| Dimensions | Impacts |
| Employment | • Disability results in: loss of employment, reduced productivity, less rewarding jobs, unemployment especially for women, lower salaries • In addition disability limits employment for other household members as time is spent on care-giving • Restoring sight results in work resumption and enabling caregivers to find employment |
| Material wealth | • Households affected by disability, including vision impairment have: lower average incomes, more severe income loss, lower savings, higher debt and low asset and land ownership, and lower housing and amenity standards • Households also suffer from hunger and food insecurity |
| Education | • Disability impacts on: school participation, children’s entrance into schools, literacy levels and school completion and success • Girls and women are more affected in terms of school participation and literacy levels • In addition, disability indirectly impacts on education by disrupting of schooling of children who stay at home to take care of the disabled |
| Health | • Disabled have: numerous barriers to healthcare, limited access to rehabilitation services, greater risk of accidents, higher mortality rates, equal or higher risk of HIV exposure and limited HIV/Aids outreach and treatment services |
| Poverty alleviation & development | • Disabled (especially vision impaired) have: limited access to development assistance and poverty relief |
| Social wellbeing | • Disabled people are socially isolated and have reduced marriage prospects, less partner choices, and greater abandonment risk • Disabled people and their families experience low self-esteem and stigma • Disabled people, especially women experience higher rates of violence & less assistance with abuse and have limited decision-making power in and outside household |
| Public cost | • Direct costs: medical & related expenses • Indirect costs: missed income-earning opportunities & long term productive potential impact |