Global commitments to disability inclusion in health professions

Meeks, Lisa M.; Maraki, Ioanna; Singh, Satendra; Curry, Raymond H.

doi:10.1016/s0140-6736(20)30215-4

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“…Under this wider principle, the incorporation of HCPs with disabilities could help advance the consideration of patients with disabilities and their nuanced needs. [ 19 ] They too commit to being completely forthright and open about their condition, capacities and constraints. While not obliged to unveil the details of the specific condition to everybody, an HCP with a disability should share sufficient information with the hospital so that the administration can provide necessary accommodations as per RPDA to meet the particular expert abilities.…”

Section: Duty To Safeguard (Supporting Health Professionals With Disamentioning

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Disability ethics in the coronavirus crisis

Singh

2020

J Family Med Prim Care

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The disability viewpoint is fundamental for understanding and advancing social justice for everyone in the population. Despite this fact, it is regularly dismissed by public health experts and policymakers. Understanding of disability rights is central in an all-inclusive COVID-19 preparedness. This paper attempts to explore disability ethics in understanding structural discrimination, equitable practices, respect for disability culture and ways to safeguard health care professionals with disabilities in the coronavirus pandemic. In crisis standards of care, resource allocations must not be solely based on a disabled person's subjective quality of life. Health professionals should avoid stereotypes about an individual's disability to ration care. Triage protocol committees and disaster risk reduction working groups should explicitly recruit people with disabilities and chronic illnesses in their response strategies. Disability ethics can reform medical rationing by removing prejudices and safeguarding fair protection of the interests of all patients, including those with a disability.

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Section: Duty To Safeguard (Supporting Health Professionals With Disamentioning

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Disability ethics in the coronavirus crisis

Singh

2020

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“…The MCI expects an IMG to be a 'Leader' of the healthcare team and a member of the healthcare system [14]. This involves self-awareness of social accountability which is the capacity to respond to society's health disparities and to address such needs through interprofessional collaboration [18]. This necessitates advocacy which is the process of people participating in decision-making processes affecting their own lives, and society in general.…”

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Developing Humanistic Competencies Within the Competency-Based Curriculum

2020

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We herein, describe the rationale, content, methodology and evaluation of a health humanities module in the new competency-based curriculum, and share our experience of the same. Providing training in health humanities to the healthcare trainees will definitely go a long way in having a professional and responsive Indian medical graduate, who is able to provide empathetic and holistic healthcare to all sections of the society.

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“…"Acid attack victim" is listed among the 21 specified disabilities deemed eligible for educational and employment reservations specified in the RPwD Act 2016, if such instance leads to benchmark disability under the locomotor disability category. Global inequity and lack of diversity in medical educational programmes carry significant costs as they may negatively influence potential innovations, and the inclusion of PwDs in the healthcare sector as physicians, nurses, therapists could promote the care of patients with disabilities and their nuanced needs (19). It is also necessary to re-examine the inclusion of PwDs in the Indian healthcare sector because of the following developments:…”

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Admission of persons with disabilities into nursing and midwifery courses: Progress made by the Indian Nursing Council

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Somanathan³

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India's Persons with Disabilities Act, 1995 (PWD Act, 1995 mandated a minimum enrollment reservation of 3% for persons with disability (PwDs) across all educational courses supported by government funding. Following this, the Indian Nursing Council (INC) issued regulations limiting such an enrollment quota to PwDs with lower limb locomotor disability ranging between 40%-50%. The Medical Council of India (MCI) also restricted admissions under the PwD category to PwDs with a lower limb locomotor disability to comply with the Act. The Rights of Persons with Disabilities (RPwD) Act, 2016, which replaced the PwD Act, 1995, raised the minimum reservation to 5% for all government-funded institutions of higher education and extended this reservation to PwDs under 21 different clinical conditions, rather than the seven conditions included under the PwD Act, 1995. Following the enactment of the RPwD Act, 2016, the MCI issued regulations that allowed PwDs with locomotor disability and those with a few other types of disabilities in the range of 40%-80%, to pursue graduate and postgraduate medical courses, while the INC has

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Global commitments to disability inclusion in health professions

Cited by 17 publications

References 11 publications

Disability ethics in the coronavirus crisis

Disability ethics in the coronavirus crisis

Developing Humanistic Competencies Within the Competency-Based Curriculum

Admission of persons with disabilities into nursing and midwifery courses: Progress made by the Indian Nursing Council

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