Under the Americans with Disabilities Act, an individual with a disability is someone who: 1) has a physical or mental impairment that substantially limits one or more major life activities; or (2) has a record of such an impairment; or (3) is regarded as having such an impairment (the Americans with Disabilities Act, 1990). More than […]
Conceptualizing community: the experience of mental health consumers. Wong YL, Sands RG, Solomon PL. University of Pennsylvania School of Social Policy & Practice, 3701 Locust Walk, Philadelphia, PA 19104, USA. ylwong@sp2.upenn.edu Qual Health Res. 2010 May;20(5):654-67. Epub 2010 Feb 12. In this article we describe a focus group study of the perspectives of diverse groups […]
Examining the Psychological Sense of Community for Individuals with Serious Mental Illness Residing in Supported Housing Environments. Townley G, Kloos B. University of South Carolina, 1512 Pendleton Street, Barnwell College, Columbia, SC, 29208, USA, Gregory.townley@gmail.com. Community Ment Health J. 2010 Aug 5. [Epub ahead of print] The psychological sense of community is an important aspect […]
Gainful employment reduces stigma toward people recovering from schizophrenia. Perkins DV, Raines JA, Tschopp MK, Warner TC. Department of Psychological Science, Ball State University, Muncie, IN 47306, USA. dperkins@bsu.edu Community Ment Health J. 2009 Jun;45(3):158-62. Epub 2008 Jul 24. Stigma impedes the social integration of persons recovering from psychiatric disability, especially those with criminal histories. […]
Social integration of people with serious mental illness: network transactions and satisfaction. Wong YL, Matejkowski J, Lee S. School of Social Policy & Practice, University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, PA 19104-6214, USA. ylwong@sp2.upenn.edu J Behav Health Serv Res. 2011 Jan;38(1):51-67. Epub 2010 Jan 6. Social integration involves a process through which an individual establishes and maintains […]
Children with developmental disabilities are at risk for secondary complications and lower academic performance, which contributes to lower health and well-being and may be ameliorated by access to special education services. This paper examines state variability in preschool special education participation among a United States population-based cohort with parent-reported developmental delays and disabilities. Analyses explore […]
The myth and reality of disability prevalence: measuring disability for research and service. McDermott S, Turk MA. Department of Family and Preventive Medicine, University of South Carolina School of Medicine, Columbia, SC 29208, USA. suzanne.mcdermott@uscmed.sc.edu Disabil Health J. 2011 Jan;4(1):1-5. Epub 2010 Nov 5. The concept of disability has medical, functional, and social components. We […]
Promoting health, quality of life, and participation of persons with disabilities is a relatively recent development in public health. Its brief history reflects three distinct public health perspectives toward disability—a traditional approach that focuses on preventing disability, a contemporary approach that regards disability as a minority group experiencing disparities relative to people without disabilities, and an […]
Nearly three months after the arrival of long-awaited health care reform, many people are not sure how things will change. In May 2010, 44 percent of Americans reported being confused about it, and more than a third of the public do not understand how the new law will affect them and their families.1 The Patient […]
As part of a women’s health center project, we reviewed 16 years of research to examine health disparities between women with and without disabilities. We reviewed MEDLINE-indexed articles between 1990 and 2005 with data on women with and without physical, sensory, intellectual, developmental, or psychiatric disabilities. Our review found few articles examining health disparities in […]