Disability in a Public Health Context: Human Rights Mandate and Data Challenges

Disability in a Public Health Context: Human Rights Mandate and Data Challenges
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This is a past event

If you would like to attend, please register your interest with Sophie Halpin (sophie.halpin@abdn.ac.uk).

The relationship between disability and health is complex and conceptually, socially and politically contested. This workshop will explore the current non- or inadequate inclusion of people with disabilities in health care relevant research and in population health statistics, future challenges and outline – based on examples – adaptations to data collection (e.g. sampling, methodologies).

The UN Convention on the Rights of Persons with a Disability (UN CRPD) (2006) and the World Report on Disability (2010) have highlighted the necessity to tackle inequalities in health for people with disabilities through national legislation and practice. In the UK the Equality Act 2010 considers disability as a protected characteristic and requires public services, including health care to be non-discriminatory. In the United States, Healthy People 2010 (now 2020) included people with disabilities for the first time as a group along with the general population as a target of health promotion.

The UN CRPD, Art 31 demands that States “…collect appropriate information, including statistical and research data, to enable them to formulate and implement policies to give effect to the present Convention”.  Further, it requires that “The information collected in accordance with this article shall be disaggregated, as appropriate, and used to help assess the implementation of States Parties' obligations under the present Convention and to identify and address the barriers faced by persons with disabilities in exercising their rights”.

Workshop at 12:45, preceeded by sandwiches at 12:30.

If you would like to attend, please register your interest with Sophie Halpin (sophie.halpin@abdn.ac.uk).

Heather Morgan and Pawana SharmaCo-Convenors of the HSRU Methodology Workshops Series

Speaker
Professor Thilo Kroll, Professor of Disability and Public Health Research, University of Dundee
Hosted by
Health Services Research Unit (HSRU)
Venue
Room 115, Health Sciences Building, Foresterhill