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Respecting Autonomy in Health Care, Research, and All …
WebTo borrow the opening lines of a recent Current History piece by HPOD associate Chester Finn, Executive Director Professor Michael Ashley Stein, and Director of Advocacy Initiatives Hezzy Smith:. For millennia, societies around the world have deployed labels, devised procedures, and designed schemes to defend and legiti- mize restrictions …
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Disability Bias in Health Care
WebClinicians can be powerful change agents for promoting disability rights. But to do so, they must overcome disability biases that are all too prevalent in clinical practice and contribute to entrenching long-standing health care disparities experienced by persons with disabilities.. HPOD Executive Director Professor Michael Ashley Stein and Dr. Omar …
Mental Health, Human Rights, and Legal Capacity Our Wo
WebThe United Nations Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities (CRPD) continues to play a substantial role globally in shaping mental health policy making, clinical practice, and beyond. Article 12, along with its interpretive General Comment 1, enshrine a right to equal recognition before the law for all people, including those with …
Disability-Inclusive Climate Action, Research and …
WebIn a new Personal View published in The Lancet Planetary Health, HPOD Senior Associate Penelope J.S. Stein, HPOD Executive Director Michael Ashley Stein, and members of the Global Disability Climate Justice working group urge researchers and policymakers around the world to explore disability-inclusive climate solutions that …
Climate Change and the Right to Health of People with …
WebClimate change is directly and disproportionately threatening the right to health of people with disabilities due to higher ambient temperatures, elevated air pollutants, and increasing exposure to extreme weather events that include heatwaves, floods, hurricanes, and wildfires.
Disclosing and Treating Invisible Disabilities Disclosure
WebEstimates suggest that only about 1% of medical students with major depressive disorder disclose it as a disability. Throughout the medical school admissions process, training, and licensure activities, students and physicians with histories of mental illness face structural barriers that result in discrimination and discourage disclosure and …
U.S. Government's Fifth National Climate Assessment …
WebThe U.S. government's Fifth National Climate Assessment (NCA5) documents observed and projected vulnerabilities, risks, and impacts associated with climate change across the United States. This Congressionally mandated report produced by the interagency U.S. Global Change Research Program (USGCRP) has documented …
The Discordant Singer How Peter Singer’s Treatment of G
WebFrom the American Journal of Law and Equality.. Peter Singer is well known for having made a powerful case for a vastly greater commitment, by each of us individually and by society, to the alleviation of global poverty.
Disability and Diversity in Medical Education
WebIndividuals living with disabilities are underrepresented in the physician workforce, despite the known benefits of disability inclusion.As noted by former American Medical Association (AMA) president, Barbara McAneny: “One requirement to advance health equity is to promote greater diversity among medical school applicants and …
Reckoning with the History of Institutions for Persons with
WebMany of the origins of disability rights policy in America began in the Massachusetts legislature. There, in 1843 and 1846, Dorothea Dix and Samuel Gridley Howe launched major efforts to improve living conditions for people with mental, intellectual, and cognitive disabilities. More than 175 years later, disability advocates are now calling …
THE BELMONT REPORT
Web2. Beneficence. The “beneficence” principle also has two main parts: (1) researchers have to protect humans from harm and (2) researchers have to try to make the benefits of research as big as possible for human research participants. The first part of the “beneficence” principle means that researchers cannot try to hurt humans they use
Disability, Human Rights, and Climate Justice
WebTo date, "[d]isability has largely been excluded from international climate change negotiations as well as national-level discharge of climate-related measures," as HPOD's Senior Associate Penelope J.S. Stein and Executive Director Michael Ashley Stein write in their article "Disability, Human Rights, and Climate Justice". They detail how a …
We Have Human Rights
WebYes! is a human rights curriculum on the rights of persons with disabilities. It was written by people with a wide range of experience in human rights and disability. It will be valuable to human rights workers, advocacy groups, and people working on human rights education. www.humanrightsyes.org.
Do Polio Eradication Efforts Overlook the 20 Million Peopl
WebPublic health campaigns around the world have helped to reduce the number of people infected with polio by 99%—from 350,000 annual cases in 125 countries in 1988, to 138 cases in two endemically infected countries in 2018.
Understanding and responding to children's needs in inclusive
WebTable of Contents Overview of the Guide 7 Children Differ 7 “Full Participation and Equality” 10 Help for Teachers 11 Aims of the Guide 11 Contents 13 Format of the Guide 13 Key Messages 14 Study Groups 15 Further Information 15 Key Terms 16 UNIT 1 Every Child is an Individual 19 Unit 1: Overview 19 Barriers to Learning 19 Impairments 21 Social View …
Disability, poverty and development
WebChildren are often disabled as a result of malnutrition. In turn, disability exacerbates poverty, by increasing isolation and economic strain, not just for the individual but often for the affected family as well. Children with disabilities are more likely to die young, or be neglected, malnourished and poor.
Disabled People and Development
WebPeople with disabilities and other stakeholders need to develop the capacity for social action—through the development of skills and experience in participatory management of knowledge and resources—and for the coordination of intersectoral and multistakeholder approaches to development. 121.
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