Disability and Society Flashcards
What is impairment?
Organic physical or mental deficit
Handicap
Societal disadvantages associated with disability
What is the biomedical model of disability?
It focuses on individual, medically driven, prevention/ treatment of impairment
What is the social model of disability?
Politically driven, focuses on society (person disabled by society not their impairment), focus on societal change not prevention via prenatal selection
Equality act 2010
Aims to protect disabled people from victimisation and discrimination
What is reframing of impairment?
OLIVER
Describes how you can rephrase questions to sound like you are not blaming the patient for their disability
What is laypeople?
People who dont have professional/ good knowledge on something.
What are the social barriers?
Environmental, attidudinal and organisational
Ringham, 2012
28% of people with hearing loss had left a GP surgery being unclear about a diagnosis (Ringham, 2012)
Sibley, 2009
72% of blind and visually impaired people could not read the heath information that they were provided with
Environmental barrier
All public sector services have a legal duty to make reasonable adjustments to their services so that they are as accessible and effective for disabled people with as they would be for people who are not disabled
What is victimisation
Victimisation is when someone treats you badly or subjects you to a detriment because you complain about discrimination or help someone who has been the victim of discrimination.
Rosenstock health belief model
shows reasoning behind people choosing to continue with healthy/unhealthy behaviours
