Block 4 Week 2: Understanding Disability Flashcards
What are the three models of disability?
Medial
Social
Interactional/ Intergrated
Outline the medial model of disability
Disability: Intrinsic to the individual
Restrictions: Attributed to physical or cognitive impairment
Intervention/ Services: Chaning/ Curing person
HCP Role: Tx and Central
What are the criticisms of the medical model?
- Individualises issue of disability
- Negative/ Diempowers
- Personal tragedy
- Medicine defines & controls disabled people
What is the social model of diability?
Disability: Extrinsic to individual (due to way society is organised)
Social, attitudes, physical barries prevent disabled people from participating in society to same extent as others
Public Issues: Socio-political Response
What are the differences between Impairment & Disability in the Social Model of Disability?
Impairment: Bodily, mental or interllectual limitation or condition
Disability: Loss or of limitation of opportunities to take part in society on equal basis
What are the advantaged and disadvantages to the social model of disability?
Advantages:
- Not seen as an inevitable consequence of living with impairment
- Need remove phsyical, attitudinal & social barrier to full social participation
- Social & political change rather than individual adpation
Disadvantages:
- Fail acknowledge significance of impairments for individual
What is the considered appropriate model of diability?
Interactional approach adopted by:
WHO’s International Calssification of Functioning
UN Conventions on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities
Describe the International Classification of Functioning
Addresses difference of emphasis (implicit) in the medial & social models of disability
Establishes common langauge for describing health & health related states to improve communication between different users
Provide international coding system for classifying, coding & functioning
What are the tools to promote human rights & equality?
International: UN Conventions on Rights of Person with Disabilites
& other human right conventions
National: eg: UK Equalities Act 2010
UN Conventions on Rights of Person with Disabilites- Describe
Disabled people are not ‘other’- have the same rights
Universal standard/ Benchmark which can be applied
If disabled person’s experience falls short of universal standard= human right violation
What does the UK Equality Act say about disbility?
How does it define disability?
Required: Equal treatment in- access to employment, private & public services regardless of protected characteristics
(Age, Gender, Disability, Gender reassignment, Marriage/ Civil Partnership, Race, Religion, Belief, Sex & Sexual orientation)
Certain health & social care services are covered under this act
Disability: Physcial or Mental impairment and the impairment has a substancial & long term adverse effect on their ability to carry out normal day-to-day activities
Give some examples of the areas of inequality experienced by disabled people
Employment:
- Less likely to be employed
- More likely to experience descrimination
Poverty:
- More likely
Education:
- x3 less likely to have no qualifications than someone not disabled
Difficulties accessing good and services including healthcare
Associated with poor health outcomes
Often feel like they have no control/ Choice over daily life
What is inclusive language?
What is Accessible Information Standard?
Using langauge that is:
Positive not negative
Avoids medical terms/ Collective terms
Aware of the connotations of common phrases
Accessible Information Standard: All NHS care providers must follow
Provide easily read/ understood information
Support so they can communicate effectively with health & social care services
Covers clinical record keeping
