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Disability and Discrimination

InnovAiT: Education and inspiration for general practice, 2010
Despite often having complex and challenging health problems, people with a disability may have difficulty accessing services to meet their health care and other everyday needs. These problems can be further confounded by negative public attitude and potential discrimination.
Emma Harris, Chantal Simon
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Drugs, Discrimination, and Disability

SSRN Electronic Journal, 2010
Whether addiction to prohibited drugs should be classified as a disability for the purposes of disability discrimination is a controversial question in Australia. The leading Australian case of Marsden v Human Rights Equal Opportunity Commission & Coffs Harbour & District Ex-Servicemen & Women's Memorial Club Ltd (HREOC, No H98/51, 30 August 1999 ...
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Impartiality and Disability Discrimination

Kennedy Institute of Ethics Journal, 2011
Cost-effectiveness analysis is the standard analytical tool for evaluating the aggregate health benefits of treatments and health programs. According to a common objection, however, its use may lead to unfair discrimination against people with disabilities.
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Disability management and the Disability Discrimination Act

Human Resource Management Journal, 1997
This article examines the implications that the Disability Discrimination Act is likely to have for existing organisational practices relating to the treatment of employees who acquire a disability during the course of their employment. Drawing on claims experience under the Americans with Disabilities Act, the authors conclude that if employers are to
Susanne Bruyère, Philip James
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Disability discrimination

British Journal of Midwifery, 2004
The Disability Discrimination Act 1995 envisaged a long period of implementation and the final parts of the Act come into force in October 2004.
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Discrimination and Disability: The Challenges of the ADA

Law, Medicine and Health Care, 1990
Last July 26, amidst much fanfare, President Bush signed the Americans with Disabilities Act of 1990 (the “ADA”). The Act, which President Bush aptly called “the world's first comprehensive declaration of equality for people with disabilities,” breaks new ground.
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Algorithmic Disability Discrimination

SSRN Electronic Journal, 2019
Prior to the Digital Age, disability-related information flowed between people with disabilities and their doctors, family members, and friends. However, in the 21st century, artificial intelligence tools allow corporations that collect and analyze consumer data to bypass privacy and antidiscrimination laws, such as HIPAA and the ADA, and infer ...
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Eugenics and Disability Discrimination

Disability & Society, 1994
ABSTRACT Testimony presented during the passage of the Americans with Disabilities Act (P.L. 101–336) indicated the continued existence of discrimination based upon a disability. Many persons, including academics, do not believe that such discrimination exists nor do they believe that some of the most threatening discrimination in the US is based in ...
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Prevention Of Discrimination In Elderly Disability: Can Ageism Defined As A Disability Discrimination?

2022
Engellilik, kişinin; görme işitme ve beden gücünün bir kısmını veya zekâsının bir kısmınıtümüyle yitirmesidir. Benzer şekilde yaşlılık ise kişinin yaş almasıyla birlikte, bedenselzihinsel ve ruhsal özelliklerinde muayyen oranda veya sürekli olarak fonksiyon kaybınauğraması nedeniyle yaşamın normal gereklerine uyamamasıdır.
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Disability Discrimination in Employment

2009
Abstract There have been sweeping changes to disability legislation in recent years. Disability Discrimination in Employment considers the impact of the Disability Discrimination Act 2005 which gives disabled people greater employment rights and protection, and also requires public bodies to promote equality of opportunity for disabled ...
Spencer Keen, Richard Oulton
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