Week 2 lectures

Question 1

What do people with disabilities want?

Answer 1

Want to be seen as…
- real people
- apart of society
- not something to be hidden, pitied or given charity

Question 2

What are theBARRIERS that contribute to disability(x8)?

Answer 2

1. Inaqdequate Policies and Standards
2. Negative attitudes
3. Lack of provision of services
4. Problems with service delivery
5. Inadequate funding
6. Lack of Accessibility
7. Lack of consultation and involvement
8. Lack of data and evidence

Question 3

What is “Inadequate Policies and Standards”?

Answer 3

• does not take into account the NEEDS
• standards are NOT enforced

Question 4

What is “Negative Attitudes”?

Answer 4

• thinking/feeling negatively towards something or someone
• creates STIGMA and STEREOTYPES
• negative assumptions –> feeling bad about themselves

Question 5

Where did the idea of a “perfect body start”?

Answer 5

• sociocultural conditioning at a young age
• beautiful body
• being personally productive and achieving stuff
• if you have a disability you were “sick” (sick role), poor and of lower status

Question 6

What is “lack of provision of services”?

Answer 6

• cannot get to services (mostly in large city centres)
• costs are high

Question 7

How many people who live in low-income countries with inadequate access to health and rehabilitation services? (%)

Answer 7

80%

Question 8

What is “problems with service delivery”?

Answer 8

don’t meet their needs
- treated badly
- sometimes denied health care

Question 9

people with disabilities were more than ____ times as likely to report finding health care provider skills inadequate to meet their needs, ____ times more likely to be treated badly and nearly ____ times more likely to be denied needed health care

Answer 9

TWO
FOUR
THREE

Question 10

What is “Inaqdequate funding”?

Answer 10

poverty –> disability —> disability worsening poverty

VIcious circle

most of funds have to come from their own funds

parents can be reason for difficulty in obtaining help (7/10 reported costs as a reason for unmet needs)

Question 11

What is “lack of accessibility”?

Answer 11

• communication options (text to read, descriptive video, sign language, etc.)
• physical (stairs instead of ramps, no bars, etc…)

Question 12

What is the top 6 barriers to lack of accessibility?

Answer 12

1. employment (TOP ONE)
2. built environment
3. transportation
4. program and service delivery
5. information and communications
6. procurement of goods and services

Question 13

What is “lack of consultation and involvement”?

Answer 13

• get excluded from decision-making in matters affecting their lives

Question 14

What is “lack of data and evidence”?

Answer 14

• impacts the understanding of and action against the barriers

Question 15

What are the CONSEQUENCES for people living with disabilities? (x5)

Answer 15

1. worse health outcomes
2. lower level of education
3. Lower economic participation
4. Higher poverty levels
5. Higher dependence and limited participation

Question 16

What does “worse health outcomes” look like for a person with a disability?

Answer 16

• More vulnerable to secondary conditions, co-morbidities, and age-related conditions
• Higher risk for “risky behaviours”
• Higher risk of being exposed the violence
• experience health probs that could largely be preventable (diabetes, heart disease, obesity)

Question 17

What two education attainments are people with disabilities less likely to have compared to able-bodied people?

Answer 17

1. No certificate, diploma, or degree
2. go to University

Question 18

What does “lower level of education” look like for a person with a disability?

Answer 18

• Less likely to start school
• Less likely to stay in school
• Huge education gaps across all age groups

Question 19

What does “lower economic participation” look like for a person with a disability?

Answer 19

• More likely to be unemployed
• Earn less when employed
• More likely men (53%) to be unemployed than women (20%)
• 80% unemployed in Canada

Question 20

What does “higher poverty levels” look like for a person with a disability?

Answer 20

-Food insecurity
-Poor housing
-Lack of access to safe water and sanitation
-No easy access to health care
-Have extra costs with having disabilities

Question 21

What does “higher dependence and limited participation” look like for a person with a disability?

Answer 21

• Rely on institutional solutions
• Lack of community living
• Most support comes from family members or social networks

Question 22

The initial definition came from what two taxonomies?

Answer 22

1. Medical –> anatomical descriptions (physical handicap = loss your leg)
2. situational –> mild, moderate or severe

Question 23

The moral religous model focused on what problem? (slide 14 jan 20 photo)

Answer 23

• the disabled individual
• all about TAKING CARE of people and HELPING

Question 24

What does the MEDICAL model focused on?

Answer 24

• the problem = disabled individual
• giving them services to FIX them (MUST BE TREATED)
• the PERSON has to CHANGE

Question 25

What are the consequences to the medical model?

Question 26

What does the SOCIAL model focus on? (slide 22 jan 20 )

Answer 26

the ENVIRONMENT is the problem (everything around them)

can be enabling or disabling

barriers : attitudinal, environmental, institutional (legal)

Question 27

What are the consequences of the social model?

Question 28

What is the RIGHTS BASED model?

Answer 28

• tied to social model
• problem is the ENVIRONMENT

Question 29

What does the UN say we need to move towards for viewing people with disabilities?

Answer 29

to see them as SUBJECTS with rights instead of OBJECTS of charity

Question 30

What is the Shakespeare model looking at?

Answer 30

• some people may not want to be fixed
• they don’ t see the disability as a problem