Policy implementation in wheelchair service delivery in a rural South African setting [0.03%]
南非农村轮椅服务供给中的政策执行研究
Surona Visagie,Elsje Scheffler,Marguerite Schneider
Surona Visagie
Background: Wheelchairs allow users to realise basic human rights and improved quality of life. South African and international documents guide rehabilitation service delivery and thus the provision of wheelchairs. Eviden...
Sexual and reproductive health needs assessment with deaf people in Ghana: Methodological challenges and ethical concerns [0.03%]
冈比亚聋人人口的生殖健康需求评估：方法挑战和道德困境
Wisdom K Mprah
Wisdom K Mprah
Background: Deafness is a complex and multifaceted phenomenon. The different ways of perceiving and understanding deafness have practical implications for research with deaf people. Whilst the deaf community is not homoge...
Seeking care for epilepsy and its impacts on households in a rural district in southern Malawi [0.03%]
马拉维南部农村地区癫痫的求医及其对家庭的影响
Alister Munthali,Stine H Braathen,Lisbet Grut et al.
Alister Munthali et al.
Background: Epilepsy is a disability as defined in the 2012 Disability Act of the Government of Malawi. Objectives: This article explor...
Disabling sexualities: Exploring the impact of the intersection of HIV, disability and gender on the sexualities of women in Zambia [0.03%]
艾滋病、残疾和性别交叉对赞比亚女性性行为的影响探究
Anna Wickenden,Stephanie Nixon,Karen K Yoshida
Anna Wickenden
Background: Women with a disability are often characterised as a homogenous social group consigned to a cultural stereotype with assumptions of dependence, asexuality and gender neutrality. Furthermore, there is a void of...
Occupational therapy synergy between Comprehensive Community Based Rehabilitation Tanzania and Heifer International to reduce poverty [0.03%]
Comprehensive Community Based Rehabilitation in Tanzania 和世界牛肉协会的职业治疗协作减少贫困状况的效果评估
Anne Marie W Hansen,Albert P Chaki,Ruth Mlay
Anne Marie W Hansen
Background: This article describes a partnership between a community-based rehabilitation organisation and a non-governmental organisation (NGO) in Tanzania. The partnership focused on income-generating (IG) activities to...
Wisdom K Mprah
Wisdom K Mprah
Background: Persons with disabilities in general face serious barriers to sexual and reproductive health (SRH) information and services due to institutional and attitudinal barriers. However, because deaf people have uniq...
Reading the National Disability and Rehabilitation Policy in the light of Foucault's technologies of power [0.03%]
借助福柯权力技术重读国家残疾人及康复政策
Lekholokoe P Leshota
Lekholokoe P Leshota
In the area of disability studies, models have been at the centre of debates, influencing social policies, practices and legal frameworks. The former Ministry of Health and Social Welfare in the Kingdom of Lesotho was not an exception. In i...
Inclusion of vulnerable groups in health policies: Regional policies on health priorities in Africa [0.03%]
非洲卫生区域政策中关于卫生优先权的脆弱人群纳入问题研究
Margie Schneider,Arne Henning Eide,Mutamad Amin et al.
Margie Schneider et al.
Background: If access to equitable health care is to be achieved for all, policy documents must mention and address in some detail different needs of groups vulnerable to not accessing such health care. If these needs are...
Disability and poverty - Reflections on research experiences in Africa and beyond [0.03%]
残疾与贫困——非洲及其他地区研究经历的反思
Arne H Eide,Benedicte Ingstad
Arne H Eide
Background: Whilst broadly agreed in the literature that disability and poverty are closely interlinked, the empirical basis for this knowledge is relatively weak. ...
Frances E Owusu-Ansah,Gubela Mji
Frances E Owusu-Ansah
This paper seeks to heighten awareness about the need to include indigenous knowledge in the design and implementation of research, particularly disability research, in Africa. It affirms the suitability of the Afrocentric paradigm in Afric...