Module 4 Lecture 30 Flashcards
1
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Challenges to the DALY approach to Disability
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- The GBD project criticised for its potential to represent people with disabilities as a burden
- Disability weights are considered to be the same as the severity of an impairment relating to a disease/health condition and do not vary with a person’s social position, where they live, their access to healthcare or any other life circumstance
2
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Medical Model
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- disabled people defined by their illness or medical condition
- disability is individual problem
- promotes view of a disabled person as dependent or needing to be cured or cared for and justifies the way in which disabled people have been systematically excluded from society
- THE DISABLED PERSON IS THE PROBLEM NOT SOCIETY
- Control resides firmly with professionals; choices for the individual are firmly limited to the options provided and approved by the ‘helping’ expert
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Social Model
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- DISABILITY IS NO LONGER SEEN AS AN INDIVIDUAL PROBLEM BUT AS A SOCIAL ISSUE CAUSED BY POLICIES, PRACTICES AND/OR THE ENVIRONMENT
- Disabling factor is the inaccessible environment
- SOCIAL MODEL FOCUSES ON RIDDING SOCIETY OF BARRIERS, RATHER THAN RELYING ON CURING PEOPLE WHO HAVE IMPAIRMENTS
4
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Overarching Recommendations of WHO Commission on Social Determinants of Health
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1) Improving daily living conditions
2) Tackle the Inequitable Distribution of Power, Money and Resources
3) Measure and Understand the Problem and Assess the Impact of Action
