Women and disability
The role of learning disability nurses in promoting cervical screening uptake in women with intellectual disabilities: a qualitative study
... learning disability nurses are in a position to influence this ‘intention-behaviour’ gap and improve cervical screening ...for women with intellectual disabilities ...
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Prevalence and impact of disability in women who had recently given birth in the UK
... factors. Women with disability should have access to compre- hensive family planning services that take into account their individual ...pregnancy, women with an LLI may require extra help to quit ...
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Self-reported disability in women with fibromyalgia from a tertiary care center
... The disability assessment process itself and litigation for financial compensation can act as aggravat- ing factors, by influencing reports of symptom severity ...receive disability benefits [8]; in our ...
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Access to Justice for the Disability Women as Victims in the Criminal Justice System
... Disabled women and girls are of all ages, all racial, ethnic, religious, and socio- economic backgrounds and sexual orientations; they live in rural, urban and suburban ...Disabled women and girls live at ...
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Compulsory School Is Over and Now? Vocational Experiences of Women with Intellectual Disability
... cerned and determines their specific transition behaviour. The post-school orientation phase is the result of a slow but continuous self-determination process. This process is marked by an initial phase in which the ...
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Cholesterol testing among men and women with disability: the role of morbidity
... with women and men with no chronic conditions being least likely to be up-to-date on cholesterol ...conditions, women and men living with a moderate level of disability were more likely to be ...
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Life of Tribal Women in Kerala: Identity Psychosocial Disability and Social Exclusion
... Evidently, tribal community exerts and maintains control over unwed mothers (so called deviant members) through stigmatisation and discrimination for system maintenance. This is because; individuals who challenge the ...
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Disability Rights in an Ableist Health Care Environment: How do Women with Disabilities Understand and Address Systemic Barriers to Preventative Community Health Services?
... rights-based disability legislation emerging in several jurisdictions through the latter half of the twentieth ...thesis, women with disabilities (WWDs), have not fully realized the benefits that were ...
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The importance of disability as a health issue for mid-life women
... midlife women, nearly one third of women (aged 45–57 years) reported moderate functional limitations and 11 % reported severe limitations based upon the SF-36 physical functioning questionnaire ...
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Structuring Photovoice for Community Impact: A Protocol for Research With Women With Physical Disability
... Abstract: Women with disability face participation barriers based on long-held misconceptions around their identity that adversely affect their health, income levels, and access to education and ...with ...
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Morbidity Experiences and Disability Among Canadian Women
... among women and men for most causes (though less pronounced when same-day procedures are included), women are hospitalized more frequently (especially in the younger adult years), the sex ratios being ...
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Physical disability and bladder and sexual dysfunction: Interrelationships in women with multiple sclerosis
... Estimates of depressive synq)tomatology in people with disabihties have been reported as four times as high as for those without disabihties (Turner and Beiser 1990). The explanation for this is that difficulty ...
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Access to Health, Dental and Disability Benefits: The Experiences of Self Employed Women
... The only "clean and sober doting" book on the market, offering a frank yet lighthearted view of what "normal" dating looks like Great information on all aspects of today's dating environment $18 95 ob[.] ...
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Access to maternity services for women with a disability: adherence to or in breach of international instruments decreeing the rights of people with a disability
... Women who plan an out of hospital birth in developed countries are generally classified as low risk. neverthe- less, during birth, unexpected complications may arise, which need competent decisions from the ...
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(Re)constructing Myself : the process of transition to motherhood for women with a disability
... reorganise relationships, (iii) construct a new identity, and (iv) acquire a higher level of maturity. The first two developmental stages were concerned with a safe and successful outcome to the pregnancy and birth, and ...
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Disability and Labour Force Participation in Ireland 1995 2000 ESRI Working Paper No 11, n d
... of disability is used, the effect on participation is lower, by ...of disability on participation, but identification of their models requires a variable, that affects health but that is not correlated with ...
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Becoming women: the embodied self in image culture
... of disability amongst other forms of diversity and difference, meaning that it will hopefully reach those who do not (yet) have an interest in disability ...within disability studies to think about ...
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Article Risk of Exclusion in People with Disabilities in Spain: Determinants of Health and Poverty
... Poverty, Disability and Social Exclusion vicious circle exists that manifests itself when the disabilities occur before retirement and are associated with the living and working conditions of the sectors of ...
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Good days and bad days : a grounded theory study of disabled women's sexuality : a thesis submitted in partial fulfilment of requirements for the degree of Master of Arts in Nursing at Massey University
... If nurses are to make a positive contribution they need to understand disability from a social model perspective so that they can work with disabled women in partnerships.. Change is nee[r] ...
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Knee osteoarthritis: measurement of disability and associations with chronic venous insufficiency of the legs and osteoporosis
... and women (Beary and Lugge, ...and women is similar, although symptomatic knee OA, is more common in women than men even for the same degree of pathological severity (Brandt, ...chronic ...
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