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Disability in a Public Health Context: Human Rights Mandate and Data Challenges
We are delighted that Professor Thilo Kroll, Professor of Disability and Public Health Research at the University of Dundee, has agreed to facilitate a workshop entitled: Disability in a Public Health Context: Human Rights Mandate and Data Challenges. We look forward to welcoming Professor Kroll to the Unit and to exploring some of the issues surrounding inclusion in sampling/methodological techniques in health services research and population health statistics. Please see Professor Kroll’s workshop outline below for more details.
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. 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”. 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).
For more information please contact:
Heather Morgan (h.morgan@abdn.ac.uk) or Pawana Sharma (p.sharma@abdn.ac.uk)
- Speaker
- Professor Thilo Kroll (University of St Andrews)
- Hosted by
- Heather Morgan and Pawana Sharma, Co-Convenors of the HSRU Methodology Workshops Series
- Venue
- Health Sciences Building, Room 115