BookDonald J. Lollar, Willi Horner-Johnson, Katherine Froehlich-Grobe, editors.
Summary: In this new edition, the editors and contributors update and expand on the educational framework that was introduced in the first edition for rethinking disability in public health study and practice and for attaining the competencies that should accompany this knowledge. The second edition highlights key areas of research that have emerged since the first edition was published. This edition includes new and updated chapters that have particular relevance for public health practice: - Disability, Intersectionality, and Inequity: Life in the Margins - Disability and Health Programs: Emerging Partners - Children with Special Healthcare Needs - Disasters and Disability: Rhetoric and Reality - Inter-relationship of Health Insurance and Employment for People with Disabilities - Public Health, Work, and Disability - Actions to Prepare a Competent Workforce Public Health Perspectives on Disability: Science, Social Justice, Ethics, and Beyond, 2nd Edition, is an essential resource for public health educators and practitioners as well as students in graduate schools of public health throughout the United States.
Contents:
Chapter 1. Introduction
Chapter 2. Epidemiology and Biostatistics
Chapter 3. Social Determinants of Health and Disability
Chapter 4. Disability, Intersectionality, and Inequity: Life in the Margins
Chapter 5. Environmental Contexts Shaping Disability and Health
Chapter 6. Public Health Ethics and Disability: Centering Disability Justice
Chapter 7. International Public Health and Global Disability
Chapter 8. Disability and Health Programs: Emerging Partners
Chapter 9. Children with Special Healthcare Needs
Chapter 10. Achieving Equity: Including Women with Disabilities in Maternal and Child Health Policies and Programs
Chapter 11. Aging with a Disability
Chapter 12. Disasters and Disability: Rhetoric and Reality
Chapter 13. Law, Benefits, Disability Rights, and Public Health: A Sum Greater than the Parts?- Chapter 14. Inter-relationship of Health Insurance and Employment for People with Disabilities
Chapter 15. Public Health, Work, and Disability
Chapter 16. Actions to Prepare a Competent Workforce.