Equal Access to Organ Transplantation for People with Disabilities

2021 ◽  
Vol 51 (4) ◽  
pp. 4-6
Author(s):  
Elizabeth Pendo
Keyword(s):  
Organ Transplantation ◽  
People With Disabilities ◽  
Equal Access

Mobilizing Disability Studies

Transfers ◽  
2020 ◽  
Vol 10 (1) ◽  
pp. 86-99
Author(s):  
Kudzai Matereke
Keyword(s):  
Disability Studies ◽  
People With Disabilities ◽  
Equal Access ◽  
Mobility Studies ◽  
Critical Intervention

Despite how the fields of mobility and disability studies have vastly contributed to our understanding of our lifeworld, the two, however, share asymmetric acknowledgement of each other. Mobility recurs as an aspiration for those with a disability yet disability tends to be ignored or inadequately dealt with in mobility studies. This article seeks to achieve two main objectives: first, to discuss how and what the journal has achieved over the years; and, second, to highlight that the denial of mobility is a negation of what it means to be human. Overall, the article seeks to deploy a critical intervention required for mobility studies to return the gesture to disability studies in equal magnitude. By situating the discussion within the context of the ongoing COVID-19 pandemic in Australia, this article argues that at the interface of mobility and disability lies a politics of possibility for people with disabilities in their struggles for equal access and full citizenship.

EQUAL ACCESS FOR PEOPLE WITH DISABILITIES TO EMPLOYMENT IN PUBLIC ADMINISTRATION – REAL POSSIBILITY OR FICTION?

2021 ◽  
Vol specjalny (XXI) ◽  
pp. 241-259
Author(s):  
Maciej Borski
Keyword(s):  
Public Administration ◽  
People With Disabilities ◽  
Equal Access ◽  
Real Possibility ◽  
Essential Questions

The aim of the article is to try to evaluate actions taken by the country, which are supposed to change the image of public administration perceived as an employer, who refuses to employ people with disabilities or whose only motivation is to avoid being charged with contribution to PERON. An evaluation will be based on further answers to some essential questions. In the first place, the author will try to establish whether the actions taken by the country in order to remove barriers to employing people with disabilities were also effective with organs, which are its emancipation. It will require referring to many normative regulations in force in RP; both these which are the results of actions of national legislator and those, which result from Poland making commitments in the international arena. Subsequently one must be considered if actions of specific public administration body are taken for the employment of people with disabilities, may be considered as effective and whether the rights of people with disabilities were there respected. This thought in turn will require referring to how institutions responsible for increasing the employment of people with disabilities in public administration work in practice.

Music for Everyone?

1992 ◽  
Vol 9 (3) ◽  
pp. 211-215 ◽  
Author(s):  
Laura Crichton
Keyword(s):  
Special Needs ◽  
Good Practice ◽  
People With Disabilities ◽  
Equal Access ◽  
Disabled People ◽  
Music Experience ◽  
The Right

This paper addresses the musical needs of people with disabilities, taking two specific issues – entitlement and access to music experience. While there are increasing examples of good practice, for various reasons the needs of many individuals and groups with special needs are not being adequately met. The argument that all people, regardless of ‘ability’, should enjoy equal access to music is fundamental to the discussion.Whilst the roles of music providers may differ in various contexts, if disabled people are to enjoy the right to music at all levels, access from primary age through to adulthood has to be ensured. The implication for training to fulfil this need cannot be ignored.

The Injustice of Enforced Equal Access to Transplant Operations: Rethinking Reckless Claims of Fairness

2007 ◽  
Vol 35 (2) ◽  
pp. 256-264 ◽  
Author(s):  
H. Tristram Engelhardt
Keyword(s):  
Health Care ◽  
Coercive Force ◽  
Organ Transplantation ◽  
Higher Order ◽  
Equal Access ◽  
State Coercion

This essay does not directly address organ transplantation or even issues of justice, fairness, or equality in access to organs for transplantation. Instead, it engages a higher-order question: the justice of coercively and globally imposing any particular contentfull view of justice, fairness, and/or equality (i.e., a view grounded in a particular ranking of primary human goods and/or right-making conditions) under circumstances that would violate peaceable, consensual choice. It is argued that state coercion, as in the prohibition of the sale of organs or the coercive imposition of equal access to transplantations or health care, is unjust when there are insufficient grounds to establish with certainty the canonical normative character of the particular account of justice, fairness, or equality, as well as the warrant for the use of coercive force to impose such an account.

scholarly journals INCLUSIVE DESIGN AS A COMPONENT OF CITY DEVELOPMENT

2019 ◽  
pp. 55-57
Author(s):  
V. Shkuro
Keyword(s):  
Quality Of Life ◽  
Young Children ◽  
Urban Space ◽  
Full Range ◽  
People With Disabilities ◽  
Equal Access ◽  
Inclusive Design ◽  
City Life ◽  
The City

The article presents theoretical analyze the importance of implementation the concept of inclusive design in urban space; the relevance between the implementation of inclusive design and the quality of life of citizens of the settlement. Inclusive design is design that considers the full range of human diversity with respect to ability, language, culture, gender, age and other forms of human difference. Increasing the number of elderly people (9,4 mln people over 60 or 22% of the population of Ukraine), people with disabilities (2,6 mln people – 6% of the population), families with young children, pregnant (4 % of the population) makes to the city, its design and infrastructure new challenges. These groups risk becoming effectively excluded from significant parts of city life, suffering marginalisation, exclusion and isolation. Limiting a city's access to just a part of the population while ignoring a significant other part, is economically, socially and politically unsustainable. Inclusive design at the city create the opportunity to guarantee equal access to fundamental rights; improve the quality of life of its population and ensure that everybody - regardless of age, mobility or ability - has equal access to all the resources and pleasures cities have to offer. Inclusive design creates an opportunity to support and create equal living conditions for the most vulnerable groups (people with disabilities, the elderly, families with young children). Implementation the ID to the urban space also support development economical sustainability of the city: increase the level of employment people and reducing unemployment, accordingly increasing the purchasing power of citizens, local business development, increase income to the budget; reduction the level of social exclusion, isolation and therefore increase the degree of independence of the client and the reduction of funds for social welfare and individual support. Creation access to the education facilities will increase the level of education. As the results, better education support better employment and higher salary. Creation accessibility also support of tourism attraction of the city. Creation inclusive design in the urban space support to improve the quality and sustainability of municipal services. Inclusive design ensure involving citizens to the city life.

scholarly journals INTERNATIONAL PROTECTION OF THE RIGHT OF EQUAL ACCESS TO HEALTH CARE OF PEOPLE WITH DISABILITIES

2018 ◽  
Vol 28 (6) ◽  
pp. 2057-2061
Author(s):  
Momchil Mavrov
Keyword(s):  
Health Care ◽  
United Nations ◽  
Access To Health Care ◽  
People With Disabilities ◽  
Fundamental Rights ◽  
Equal Access ◽  
Persons With Disabilities ◽  
Access To Health ◽  
The United Nations ◽  
The Right

The right to equal access to health care is a fundamental irrevocable right for every person which should be guaranteed in every legal system. It is clear from the established international standards in the field of health that the right of access to healthcare guarantees universal access on an equal basis to really available quality and acceptable health services and health facilities. According to the World Health Organization, access to health services also includes health promotion and disease prevention. In regard to people with disabilities and disadvantaged people, ensuring effective access to healthcare is extremely important, in mind their vulnerability and increased need for moral, social and financial support. The international community has always paid serious attention to the protection of the fundamental rights and freedoms of people with disabilities, especially their health care rights. Evidence for this positive policy is the many legal acts adopted within the United Nations system and within the European Union.The most important of these acts are the Universal Declaration of Human Rights, the International Covenant on Economic, Social and Cultural Rights, the International Convention on the Elimination of All Forms of Racial Discrimination, the Convention on the Elimination of All Forms of Discrimination against Women, the Convention on the Rights of the Child, the Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities, all adopted by the United Nations, as well as the Charter of Fundamental Rights of the European Union, the European Disability Strategy and other European acts. The listed legal instruments proclaim the right of every person to the highest attainable standard of health and as an element of it is protected and the right to equal access to quality health care for all persons.At the same time with creating an appropriate legal framework to protect the health rights of people with disabilities, specialized bodies have been set up within the United Nations system and within the European Union to monitor and control the implementation of international treaties. This approach of the international community deserves support, as only the introduction of comprehensive and adequate measures could provide for a sufficiently high level of protection of the rights of persons with disabilities, who as full citizens of society should have equal and appropriate conditions for full exercising their subjective health rights, without discrimination on the basis of their disability.

scholarly journals Design and Development of a Collaborative App with Accessibility Information about Tourist Sites

2021 ◽  
Vol 9 (2) ◽  
pp. 496-511
Author(s):  
Marcos Roque da Rosa ◽  
Eliane Nascimento Pereira
Keyword(s):  
People With Disabilities ◽  
Pilot Project ◽  
Equal Access ◽  
Equal Opportunities ◽  
Disabled People ◽  
Digital Maps ◽  
Gis Technologies ◽  
App Development ◽  
Public Data ◽  
Google Play

Introduction: Accessibility can help people with disabilities to participate actively in the society with equal access and equal opportunities. Accessible tourism enables people to become more included and enjoy tourism experiences. Technology has facilitated tourism for people with disabilities and a Geographic Information System (GIS) can provide the tourist guidance, navigable digital maps and enable the searching of places information. Purpose: The objective of this paper is to describe the development of a collaborative app with accessibility information in order to help people with disabilities planning and moving more independently. Method: To develop this work a research about GIS apps related to disabled people was carried out, a pilot project to validate the idea and the app development proposed. Results: The accessible places map was developed using free GIS technologies and is available for download in Google Play Store. Conclusions: The app will help people with disabilities to move more safely and comfortably, and the increase of public data in GIS by the civil engagement.

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