Ageism, ableism, and their associated factors among international undergraduate medical students in China: a cross-sectional study [PDF]
Frontiers in Public HealthBackgroundAgeism and ableism are common attitudes that have significant effects on the quality of healthcare provided to older adults and people with impairments. Despite growing concern, research into these biases among undergraduate medical students is
Azmat Ullah +6 more
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Developing and Validating Measures of Structural Ableism to Improve Health Outcomes for the Disability Community: Protocol for a Mixed Methods Study [PDF]
JMIR Research ProtocolsBackgroundStructural ableism, defined as the processes, policies, and institutions that privilege able-bodied people over disabled people, is a root cause of health inequalities faced by the disability community.
Rupa S Valdez +9 more
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How adults with cerebral palsy successfully confront and cope with ableism: a peer-led research project [PDF]
International Journal of Qualitative Studies on Health & Well-BeingPurpose This study focused on how adults with cerebral palsy successfully confronted ableism during encounters with others and successfully coped with ableism in general.
Cadeyrn J. Gaskin +13 more
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Housing ableism in finding and maintaining housing among people with disabilities: A scoping review. [PDF]
PLoS ONEBackgroundAccess to safe and affordable housing is a human right; however, people with disabilities are more likely to live in inaccessible, insecure, unaffordable and poor-quality housing than people without disabilities.
Sally Lindsay, Gözde Öncil, Sarah Leo
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Dismantling ableism in health professions education: imperative in psychosocial management of pain [PDF]
Frontiers in Public HealthPain and chronic pain are prevalent and costly. Integrative models of pain management including the biopsychosocial (BPS) model of pain are central to contemporary public health efforts to address pain, however, uptake of the BPS model of pain in patient
Krista F. Van Der Laan +1 more
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Expanding Ableism: Taking down the Ghettoization of Impact of Disability Studies Scholars
Societies, 2012 This paper highlights the utility of an expanded ableism concept beyond how it is used in disability studies; expanding the concept of ableism so it connects with all aspects of societies and making ableism applicable to many academic fields.
Gregor Wolbring
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Genealogy, 2021 This essay builds upon research in disability studies through the extension of Garland-Thomson’s figure of the normate. I argue that biopower, through the disciplinary normalization of individual bodies and the biopolitics of populations, in the ...
Stephanie Jenkins
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Are we truly fighting ableism? Digressions for a complex society [PDF]
Frontiers in SociologyAbleism, as a pervasive yet often unchallenged structure of oppression, operates across multiple social domains, shaping perceptions of disability and normalcy.
Lucas Teles da Silva +2 more
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The study of ableism in population health: a critical review
Frontiers in Public HealthOver the past three decades, health equity has become a guiding framework for documenting, explaining, and informing the promotion of population health.
Belinda Needham
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Canadian Journal of Bioethics, 2023 In this paper, I draw on my research and experience as a disability ethics educator and advocate in order to demonstrate that both Canada’s COVID-19 response and its expansion of eligibility for MAID are symptoms of the medical and systemic ableism that
Heidi Janz
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