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Public Health Perspectives on Disability

Epidemiology to Ethics and Beyond

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  • © 2011

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Editors:
  1. Donald J. Lollar

    1. Oregon Health and Science University, Portland, USA

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  2. Elena M. Andresen

    1. University of Florida, Gainesville, USA

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  • Examines disability through diverse and multidisciplinary perspectives

  • Represents all the major fields within public health study: epidemiology, environmental health, maternal & child health, etc.

  • Designed to be used in planning for any core course in the public health curriculum

  • Includes supplementary material: sn.pub/extras

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Table of contents (12 chapters)

  1. Front Matter

    Pages i-xxvii
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  2. Introduction

    1. Front Matter

      Pages 1-1
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    2. Introduction

      • Donald J. Lollar, Elena M. Andresen
      Pages 3-12

  3. Disciplines

    1. Front Matter

      Pages 13-13
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    2. Epidemiology and Biostatistics

      • Elena M. Andresen
      Pages 15-54

    3. Social and Behavioral Dimensions of Health

      • Paul Devereux, Charlie Bullock
      Pages 55-79

    4. Disability in the Health Services Curriculum

      • Carol Tobias
      Pages 81-100

    5. Environmental Health and Disability

      • Donald J. Lollar
      Pages 101-114

  4. Key Cross-Cutting Areas

    1. Front Matter

      Pages 115-115
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  5. Key cross-cutting areas

    1. Disability and Health Inequity

      • Dennis G. Heaphy, Monika Mitra, Erin D. Bouldin
      Pages 117-150

    2. Disability and Maternal and Child Health

      • Debbie Allen
      Pages 151-161

    3. Aging, Disability, and Public Health

      • John Crews
      Pages 163-183

    4. Disability and International Health

      • Mary Chamie
      Pages 185-210

    5. Disability Issues in Health Care Ethics and Law in the Public Health Curriculum

      • Jerome E. Bickenbach
      Pages 211-226

    6. Section 504 the Rehabilitation Act and the Americans with Disabilities Act in Public Health Education

      • Dennis G. Heaphy
      Pages 227-253

  6. Erratum to: Disability and Maternal and Child Health

    • Debbie Allen
    Pages E1-E9

  7. Back Matter

    Pages 255-261
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About this book

Traditionally, the public health viewpoint on disability was geared toward primary prevention of disabling conditions or events. More recently, with the movement for disability rights and the emergence of disability studies, the challenge to the field has been to promote positive health outcomes in this underserved community. Such a change in public health culture must start at the educational level, yet training programs have generally been slow in integrating this perspective—with its potential for enriching the field—into their curricula. Public Health Perspectives on Disability meets this challenge with an educational framework for rethinking disability in public health study and practice, and for attaining the competencies that should accompany this knowledge. This reference balances history and epidemiology, scientific advances, advocacy and policy issues, real-world insights, and progressive recommendations, suiting it especially to disability-focused courses, or to add disability-related content to existing public health programs. Each chapter applies awareness and understanding of disabled persons’ experience to one of the core curriculum areas, including: Health services administration, Environmental health science and occupational health, Health law and ethics, The school as physical setting, Maternal, child, and family health, Disasters and disability. In Public Health Perspectives on Disability, faculty, researchers, administrators, and students in graduate schools of public health throughout the U.S. will find a worthy classroom text and a robust source of welcome—and much needed—change.

Editors and Affiliations

  • Oregon Health and Science University, Portland, USA

    Donald J. Lollar

  • University of Florida, Gainesville, USA

    Elena M. Andresen

About the editors

Deborah Allen is an Associate Professor of Maternal and Child Health at the Boston University School of Public Health. Prior to this, she directed the Maternal and Child Health program in the Massachusetts Department of Public Health.

Bibliographic Information

  • Book Title: Public Health Perspectives on Disability

  • Book Subtitle: Epidemiology to Ethics and Beyond

  • Editors: Donald J. Lollar, Elena M. Andresen

  • DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4419-7341-2

  • Publisher: Springer New York, NY

  • eBook Packages: Medicine, Medicine (R0)

  • Copyright Information: Springer Science+Business Media, LLC 2011

  • Softcover ISBN: 978-1-4939-0077-0Published: 10 October 2014

  • eBook ISBN: 978-1-4419-7341-2Published: 08 November 2010

  • Edition Number: 1

  • Number of Pages: XXVII, 261

  • Topics: Health Promotion and Disease Prevention

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