Approximately 1· 5 billion people worldwide live with a physical, mental, sensory, or
intellectual disability, about 80% of which are in low-income and middle-income countries …

Implications for public health research of models and theories of disability : a scoping study
and evidence synthesis Page 1 This is a repository copy of Implications for public health …

Over the last forty years, the field of disability studies has emerged from the political activism
of disabled people. In this challenging review of the field, leading disability academic and …

The focus of this article is the 'weaponising'of stigma in the neoliberal era. The article starts
with a brief characterisation of the sociological literature on stigma before moving to …

Disability studies (DS) in the UK continues to grapple with the meaning of two key concepts
in its lexicon: disability and impairment. Debates about what each term means, and about …

Abstract Purpose: To discuss Universal Design (UD) as an interdisciplinary topic with
relevance for rehabilitation professions and planning and building professions. Significant …

To be fat in a thin-obsessed gay culture can be difficult. Despite affectionate in-group
monikers for big gay men-chubs, bears, cubs-the anti-fat stigma that persists in American …

Disabled people continue to face a variety of significant barriers to full participation and
inclusion in work and employment. However, their experiences remain only sparsely …

This paper provides a review of some of the literature addressing the juncture of disabilities
and sexualities and invites sociologists to build on this work and take part in this important …

Estudos sobre violências contra mulheres com deficiência são, geralmente, mais restritos
por exigirem conscientização para a abordagem conjunta entre gênero, deficiência e …