Issues in Healthcare for Individuals with Disabilities
Explore the common challenges faced by individuals with disabilities in healthcare, such as doctors focusing solely on disabilities, failing to consider daily lives and aspirations, and more. Learn how these issues impact the quality of care provided.
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Models of Disability 1. Symbolic-Moral a. Tragedy-Charity 2. Medical 3. Social (Impairment vs Disability) a. Minority b. Cultural-Affirmation
Common Issues Surrounding Care for Individuals with Disabilities 1. Many physicians focus inappropriately on their patients' disabilities rather than on their presenting complaints; view their medical conditions or disabilities in isolation from their daily lives and aspirations; fail to provide accommodations for sensory, cognitive, and physical impairments; assume that a physically disabled person is also cognitively disabled, which may lead to not believing a patient when he/she reports a symptom or element of medical history; or view the quality of their lives negatively, all of which compromise the delivery of quality health care; a doctor may downplay the importance of a pelvic exam in a patient with a spinal cord injury, assuming she is not sexually active. 2. 3. 4. 5. 6. Symons, Andrew B et al. A curriculum to teach medical students to care for people with disabilities: development and initial implementation. BMC Medical Education vol. 9 78. 30 Dec. 2009, doi:10.1186/1472-6920-9-78
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