Understanding Disability and Society

Question 1

umbrella term for impairments, activity limitations and participation restrictions

Answer 1

disability

Question 2

refers to the negative aspects of the interaction between an individual and that individual’s contextual factors.

Answer 2

disability

Question 3

problems in body function or alterations in body structure

Answer 3

impairments

Question 4

explain the medical model of disability

Answer 4

• Emphasizes that person, and that person’s impairments as a cause of disease, trauma, or some other health condition.
• Focus of intervention is medical care an change health care policy

Question 5

explain the functional model of disability

Answer 5

• Disability is caused by physical, medical, or cognitive deficits. The disability itself limits a person’s functioning or the ability to perform functional activities.
• Conceptualizes disability as an impairment or deficit.

Question 6

explain the social model of disability

Answer 6

• Focuses on the barriers facing people with disabilities instead of concentrating on impairments and deficits of the person with a disability
• Focus of intervention is change in social policy

Question 7

Its modification may improve health conditions, prevent impairments, and improve outcomes for persons with disabilities.

Answer 7

environment

Question 8

explain the relationship between disability and poverty

Answer 8

People with disabilities and their families are more likely to experience economic and social disadvantage than those without disability

Question 9

state of complete physical, mental, and social well-being and not merely the absence of disease or infirmity

Answer 9

health

Question 10

when everyone has the opportunity to “attain their full health potential” and “no one is disadvantaged from achieving this potential because of their social position or other socially determined circumstance”

Answer 10

health equity

Question 11

absence of systematic disparities in health between and within social groups that have different levels of underlying social advantages or disadvantages—that is, different positions in a social hierarchy

Answer 11

health equity

Question 12

explain the medical approach to health

Answer 12

• absence of disease or disability
• targets for health initiatives and health
  problems: individuals with health problems or at high risk for health problems such as cancer, diabetes, obesity
• Strategies to improve health: treat problems through surgery, drugs, illness care, medically managed behavior changes

Question 13

• actions to avoid or remove the cause of a health problem in an individual or a population before it arises

Answer 13

primary prevention

Question 14

actions to detect a health problem at an early stage in an individual or a population, facilitating cure, or reducing or preventing spread, or reducing or preventing its long-term effects

Answer 14

secondary prevention

Question 15

actions to reduce the impact of an already established disease by restoring function and reducing disease related complications

Answer 15

tertiary prevention

Question 16

explain behavioral approach

Answer 16

• physical functional ability and physical wellbeing
• individuals at high risk for health problems such as smoking, lack of fitness, limited life skills
• create healthy lifestyles through health education, social marketing, advocacy for public policies supporting lifestyle choices

Question 17

explain socioenvironmental approach

Answer 17

• ability to do important and meaningful things
• high risk conditions or environment with health problems such as poverty, unemployment, pollution, hazardous working conditions
• creating healthy lifestyles through personal empowerment, community organization, small group development, political action, coalition advocacy

Question 18

place that fosters a sense of connectedness, belongingness and relationship

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community

Question 19

all inhabitants of a place

Answer 19

population

Question 19

social structure created by people to manage simple or complex functions

Answer 19

organization

Question 20

to respect, protect and promote human rights – race, color, sex, language, religion, political or other opinion, national or social origin, property, birth, disability or other status

Answer 20

The 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development

Question 20

An act providing for the rehabilitation, self-development, and self-reliance of disabled persons and their integration into the mainstream of society and for other purposes

Answer 20

R.A. 7277: Magna Carta for Disabled Persons

Question 21

An act to enhance the mobility of disabled persons by requiring certain building, institution, establishments, and other public utilities to install facilities and other devices.

Answer 21

B.P. 344: Accessibility Law

Question 22

Entitlement to claim at least 20% discount from establishments relative to the sale of goods or services for their exclusive use or enjoyment

Answer 22

R.A. 9442

Question 23

• no learner shall be denied admission based on their disability
• establishment of Inclusive Learning Resource Centers for Learners With Disability
• hiring of SPED teachers and specialist
• incorporation of a separate field of specialization on special needs education in the LET
• DepEd order no. 44 s. 2021

Answer 23

R.A. 11650: Instituting a Policy of Inclusion and
Services for Learners with Disabilities in
Support of Inclusive Education Act

Question 24

• enhance the delivery of integrated mental health services.
• promote and protect the rights of persons utilizing psychosocial health services: establishment of a national mental health policy, stigma reduction, community-based mental health care

Answer 24

R.A. 11036: Philippine Mental Health Act

Question 25

The right of every individual to be able to meet basic needs and to have equal opportunities and life chances to reach toward his/her potential but specific to the individual’s engagement in diverse and meaningful occupation

Answer 25

Occupational Justice