scholarly journals Work and disability during the Covid-19 outbreak: from the current scenario to possible future perspectives

2021 ◽  
Vol 21 (3) ◽  
pp. 373-383
Author(s):  
Amelia Lecce ◽  
Diana Carmela Di Gennaro ◽  
Maurizio Sibilio
Keyword(s):  
Ad Hoc ◽  
People With Disabilities ◽  
Future Perspectives ◽  
Important Goal ◽  
Policy Makers ◽  
Fertile Ground ◽  
Legislative Framework ◽  
Current Scenario ◽  
Placement Services ◽  
Inclusive Processes

Ensuring work for people with disabilities today represents an important goal for democratic states and a continuous challenge for policy makers who should always aim to improve targeted placement services. Unfortunately, this goal, although regulated by specific laws, does not always find fertile ground in its applicability, sometimes increasing marginalization and discrimination. In this regard, the Covid-19 outbreak has brought out new forms of exclusion and new needs, increasing, in some cases, inequalities within workplaces. Therefore, starting from the scenario outlined by the pandemic, the paper aims to propose a reflection on the importance of work for people with disabilities, as a tool of self-empowerment that promotes inclusive processes, analyzing the legislative framework regarding access to work for vulnerable people and outlining possible future perspectives to promote inclusion within work places.   Lavoro e disabilità ai tempi del Covid-19: dallo scenario attuale a possibili prospettive future.   Garantire una occupazione lavorativa alle persone con disabilità rappresenta oggi una conquista per gli Stati democratici e una continua sfida per i policy makers che dovrebbero sempre puntare a migliorare i servizi di collocamento mirato. Purtroppo, tale conquista, sebbene normata da leggi ad hoc, non sempre trova terreno fertile nella sua applicabilità, alimentando, talvolta, i fenomeni di emarginazione e i meccanismi di discriminazione. A tal proposito, l’emergenza sanitaria da Covid-19 ha fatto emergere nuove forme di esclusione e nuovi bisogni incrementando, in alcuni casi, le disparità in ambiente lavorativo. Dunque, partendo dallo scenario delineato dalla situazione pandemica, il contributo intende proporre una riflessione circa l’importanza del lavoro per le persone con disabilità, in quanto strumento di self-empowerment che favorisce i processi inclusivi, analizzando il quadro normativo in materia di diritto e di accesso al lavoro per i soggetti più fragili e tratteggiando possibili prospettive future per promuovere percorsi lavorativi inclusivi.

scholarly journals La representación de la discapacidad en las imágenes de los libros de texto de Educación Física: ¿inclusión o exclusión? (Representation of disabilities in Physical Education textbooks image: inclusion or exclusion?)

Retos ◽  
2016 ◽  
pp. 88-95
Author(s):  
Irene Moya-Mata ◽  
Laura Ruiz Sanchis ◽  
Julio Martin Ruiz ◽  
Petra María Pérez Alonso-Geta ◽  
Concepción Ros Ros
Keyword(s):  
Physical Education ◽  
Primary Education ◽  
Ad Hoc ◽  
People With Disabilities ◽  
Maximum Level ◽  
Bivariate Analysis ◽  
Validity And Reliability ◽  
Significance Level ◽  
Kolmogorov Smirnov ◽  
Levene Test

El objetivo de la investigación es mostrar cómo se representan las personas con discapacidad en las imágenes de los libros de texto de Educación Física en la etapa de Educación Primaria. El estudio es de tipo empírico, descriptivo y comparativo entre los libros de texto analizados. La muestra recogió 3836 imágenes de libros de texto publicados en España entre los años 2006 y 2013, bajo la Ley Orgánica de Educación (LOE). La técnica de investigación fue el análisis de contenido a través de un sistema de categorías elaborado ad hoc, previa validación y fiabilidad mediante una prueba piloto, una consulta a expertos/as y una prueba intercodificadores. Para el análisis estadístico se utilizó el software SPSS 19.0. Se realizó un análisis univariante y bivariante con la prueba Kolmogorov-Smirnov, la prueba de Levene y el test Ji-Cuadrado de Pearson con un nivel de significación del 5%. Los resultados mostraron que las personas con discapacidad son prácticamente excluidas en dichas imágenes, siendo casi invisible la mujer con discapacidad. A su vez, la persona con discapacidad es de raza blanca, entre niña y joven y con una discapacidad física, principalmente representada en silla de ruedas. La actividad física que aparece en este colectivo se asocia a la práctica deportiva, en un ámbito competitivo y de máximo nivel. Estos resultados están muy alejados de la inclusión de la discapacidad en la sociedad actual y concretamente, en los libros de texto de Educación Física en Primaria, del sistema educativo español.  Abstract. The objective of this research is to show how people with disabilities are represented in Physical Education textbooks in use in Primary Education. The study design is empirical, descriptive, and focuses on comparing between the analyzed textbooks. A sample of 3,836 images were collected from textbooks published in Spain between 2006 and 2013, under the Organic Law of Education (LOE). A research technique based on content analysis was employed through a tailor-made system of categories, which was previously tested for validity and reliability in a pilot study, by consulting experts, as well as by intercoder agreement test. The statistical analysis of data was performed using the software SPSS 19.0. Univariate and bivariate analysis with Kolmogorov-Smirnov test, Levene test and Pearson Chi-Square test were performed, setting the significance level at 5%. Results showed that people with disabilities are mostly excluded in these images, especially impaired women. Disabled people are represented as Caucasian, either children or youth with a physical disability, mostly using wheelchair. Physical activity appearing in this group is associated with sports at a competitive and maximum level. These results are far from the inclusion of disability in today's society and specifically in textbooks of Physical Education in Primary Education within the Spanish educational system.

scholarly journals Az esélyegyenlőség és a fogyatékkal élők helyzetének területi különbségei Magyarországon

2010 ◽  
Vol 5 (1-2) ◽  
pp. 39-43
Author(s):  
Szabolcs Fabula
Keyword(s):  
Regional Scale ◽  
People With Disabilities ◽  
Great Plain ◽  
The European Union ◽  
Disabled People ◽  
Policy Makers ◽  
Marginal Groups ◽  
Short Summary ◽  
The People ◽  
Spatial Differences

People with disabilities is one of the most marginal groups in today's society so ensur-ing their rights and needs is a great challenge for policy makers and planners. This paper reviews the most important agreements and laws about disability in the European Union and Hungary, as well as the New Hungary Development Plan. Later the paper also reveals the spatial differences of the people with disabilities in Hungary on the regional scale and presents relationship between the state of development and the ratio of disabled people. In comparing the data of the country and the South Great Plain the charasteristics of the dis-abled population in age, qualification and employment are also highlighted. Finally there is a short summary of the accessible and non-accessible public buildings in Békés County and Békéscsaba.

Conclusion

2017 ◽  
Author(s):  
Sarah F. Rose
Keyword(s):  
Labor Market ◽  
Public Policies ◽  
People With Disabilities ◽  
Disabled People ◽  
Policy Makers ◽  
Good Citizenship ◽  
Different Types ◽  
Paid Labor

By the 1920s, people with many different types and origins of disabilities—from tuberculosis and feeble-mindedness to amputations and blindness—had been pushed out of the paid labor market and, thereby, edged out from “good citizenship.” Most people with disabilities kept on working, although their labors were rarely recognized or compensated as such. The “problem” of disability, however, lay not in the actual bodies of disabled people, but rather in the meanings assigned to those impairments by employers and policy makers, as well as how those meanings intersected with shifting family capacities, a rapidly changing workplace, public policies aimed at discouraging dependency, and the complexity and mutability of disability itself....

Enabling Virtual Knowledge Networks for Human Rights Monitoring for People with Disabilities

2012 ◽  
Vol 4 (2) ◽  
pp. 1-17 ◽  
Author(s):  
Christo El Morr ◽  
Mihaela Dinca-Panaitescu ◽  
Marcia Rioux ◽  
Julien Subercaze ◽  
Pierre Maret ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Human Rights ◽  
People With Disabilities ◽  
Knowledge Networks ◽  
Knowledge Network ◽  
Evidence Based ◽  
Disability Rights ◽  
Policy Makers ◽  
Building Capacity ◽  
Community People ◽  
Operational Tool

Holistic disability rights monitoring is an imperative approach to permit translation of rights on paper into rights in reality for people with disabilities. However, evidence-based knowledge produced through such a holistic monitoring approach has to be accessible to a broad range of stakeholders, e.g., groups such as: researchers, representatives of disability community, people with disabilities, media, policy makers, and the general public. Besides, the collected evidence should contribute to building capacity within disability community around human rights questions. This article explains the design process of a Virtual Knowledge Network (VKN) as an operational tool to support mobilization and dissemination of evidence-based knowledge produced by the Disability Rights Promotion International Canada (DRPI-Canada) project. This VKN is embedded in the more general framework of DRPI, grounded in a human rights approach to disability that acknowledges the importance of creating knowledgeable communities in order to make the disability rights monitoring efforts sustainable.

scholarly journals Earthquake forecasting model for Nepal to improve prevention

2018 ◽  
Vol 7 (4) ◽  
pp. 700-701
Author(s):  
Brijesh Sathian ◽  
Edwin R Van Teijlingen
Keyword(s):  
Government Policy ◽  
Service Providers ◽  
Earthquake Forecasting ◽  
Forecasting Model ◽  
Policy Makers ◽  
International Agencies ◽  
Governmental Organizations ◽  
Non Governmental Organizations ◽  
Current Scenario ◽  
Per Se

There is an urgent need of earthquake forecasting model for Nepal in this current scenario. It can be developed by the scientists of Nepal with the help of experienced international scientists. This will help the Nepalese to take timely and necessary precautions. We would argue that above all we need to use earthquake prediction knowledge to improve the disaster prepardness in local communities, service providers (hospitals, Non-Governmental Organizations, police, etc.), government policy-makers and international agencies. On the whole, both seismology and public health are most successful when focusing on  prevention not on prediction per se. J Epidemiol. 2017;7(4); 700-701.

Housing for People with Disabilities: A Review of State Olmstead and HUD Consolidated Plans

2019 ◽  
pp. 0739456X1984456
Author(s):  
Lynn McCormick ◽  
Alex Schwartz ◽  
Chiara Passerini
Keyword(s):  
United States ◽  
Urban Development ◽  
Housing Policy ◽  
Americans With Disabilities Act ◽  
People With Disabilities ◽  
The United States ◽  
Policy Makers ◽  
Housing Needs ◽  
Ordered State ◽  
Made In

Although some scholars have discussed the serious shortage of appropriate housing for people with disabilities, planners and housing policy makers have been largely silent on this issue. We summarize the literature, to date, about the housing needs of people with disabilities in the United States. We investigate what progress states have made in addressing these needs since the Americans with Disabilities Act (1990) by examining recent court-ordered state Olmstead plans and their U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development (HUD) Consolidated plans. We find that states are mostly aware of the size and housing needs of people with disabilities but have not yet developed sufficient programming.

Social Issues in Electronic Commerce

2011 ◽  
pp. 189-206
Author(s):  
Anastasia Papazafeiropoulou ◽  
Athanasia Pouloudi
Keyword(s):  
Network Security ◽  
Policy Implementation ◽  
Electronic Commerce ◽  
Social Issues ◽  
Policy Makers ◽  
White House ◽  
Online Transactions ◽  
Complex Process ◽  
Legislative Framework ◽  
National Governments

Policy implementation for electronic commerce is a complex process since policy makers, national governments in their majority, have to act in a fast changing environment. They need to balance special national demands with international cooperation (Papazafeiropoulou & Pouloudi, 2000). One of the areas that policy makers have to tackle is dealing with barriers that have been reported in the adoption of electric commerce today. These barriers are mostly derived from factors such as lack of awareness about the opportunities offered by electronic commerce as well as lack of trust to ward network security. Additionally the current legislative framework, drawn before the advent of electronic commerce, is perceived as outdated, thus impeding the expansion of online transactions. Policy makers, therefore, find it increasingly critical to update commerce legislation (Owens, 1999; Shim et al., 2000; the White House, 1999) and take other measures to facilitate the uptake of electronic commerce.

scholarly journals A Comparative Analysis of the Legislation Evolution for Drone Use in OECD Countries

Drones ◽  
2019 ◽  
Vol 3 (4) ◽  
pp. 75 ◽  
Author(s):  
Nikolaos Tsiamis ◽  
Loukia Efthymiou ◽  
Konstantinos P. Tsagarakis
Keyword(s):  
Comparative Analysis ◽  
Ethical Dilemmas ◽  
Oecd Countries ◽  
The European Union ◽  
Policy Makers ◽  
Intensive Use ◽  
Legislative Framework ◽  
Catch Up ◽  
Legal Frameworks ◽  
Near Future

Drones have been employed for multiple uses, such as for military, surveillance, recreational, scientific, and research purposes. Their presence inside civil areas has necessitated the need to regulate their use. Towards this direction, many countries worldwide have issued national legislations, which vary on vehicle categorization according to the size, weight, flight altitude, purpose of use, and restrictions. In this study, we pursued the first comparative analysis of the Organization for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD) countries’ national legislations, in order to explore the similarities and differences in drone use and recommend improvements and homogenization. Some of the examined countries issued legislation during recent years of drone application, while others amended their existing legislative framework in order to catch up with drone technology evolution. Although from the 35 OECD countries 22 belong to the European Union, we observed much diversity among national legal frameworks. The intensive use of drones has led to severe ethical dilemmas that policy makers will need to address in the near future. We conclude with a proposal regarding the basic legislation for different uses according to the criteria that have been developed so far, followed by limitations and restrictions.

Trade Union Ambivalence Toward Enforcement of Employment Standards as an Organizing Strategy

2016 ◽  
Vol 17 (1) ◽  
Author(s):  
Ingrid Landau ◽  
John Howe
Keyword(s):  
Trade Union ◽  
Trade Unions ◽  
Ad Hoc ◽  
Minimum Standards ◽  
The Past ◽  
Union Movement ◽  
Employment Standards ◽  
Legislative Framework ◽  
Core Part

Trade unions in Australia have long played an important role in the enforcement of minimum employment standards. The legislative framework today continues to recognize this enforcement role, but in a way that is more individualistic and legalistic than in the past. At the same time that the law has evolved to emphasize the representation and servicing role of trade unions, the Australian union movement has sought to revitalize and grow through the adoption of an “organizing model” of unionism that emphasizes workplace-level activism. This Article explores how these seemingly opposing trends have manifested themselves in the enforcement-related activities of five trade unions. Considerable diversity was found among the unions in relation to the extent to which and how the unions performed enforcement-related activities. However, all five unions spent significant time and resources on monitoring and enforcing employer compliance with minimum standards and saw this work as a core part of what they do. The case studies suggest, however, that the way in which this work is undertaken within unions and by whom has changed significantly in recent decades. While there was evidence that enforcement work was used tactically by unions in certain cases, this was largely on an ad hoc basis and there was little indication that the enforcement work was integrated into broader organizing objectives and strategies. Overall, the unions were ambivalent, if not skeptical, as to the capacity for enforcement work to grow unions through building workplace activism and collective strength.

THE LEGAL SITUATION OF PEOPLE WITH DISABILITIES IN LATVIA

2018 ◽  
Vol 3 ◽  
pp. 107-116
Author(s):  
Judīte Kulačkovska
Keyword(s):  
Everyday Life ◽  
Personal Experience ◽  
People With Disabilities ◽  
Legal Framework ◽  
Actual Situation ◽  
Functional Disorders ◽  
Disabled Children ◽  
Disabled People ◽  
Legal Situation ◽  
Legislative Framework

Each year the number of people with disabilities in Latvia increases. More and more children are born with congenital problems. Many opportunities are not used to integrate disabled people in the society. The study aims to evaluate the legal situation in Latvia of both children and adults with disabilities. People with functional disorders are an integral part of society and the legislative framework should prevent their discrimination. While carrying out the analysis of legal framework defining documents, as well as the reflection of personal experience, it was found that the actual situation in the country does not entirely meet with the legal framework. People with special needs in both Latvian statutes and everyday life are still denoted with a term ’invalid’. In assessing the dynamics of the number of disabled children, it was found that the number of such children is increasing.

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