Sökning: "disability rights"

Visar resultat 1 - 5 av 33 avhandlingar innehållade orden disability rights.

1. 1. Enabling disability rights in practise : Understanding how the governance of state-funded personal assistance is fulfilling the Swedish LSS Act

   Författare :Heléne von Granitz; Ulrika Winblad; Karin Sonnander; Ieva Reine; Urban Markström; Uppsala universitet; []
   Nyckelord :MEDICIN OCH HÄLSOVETENSKAP; MEDICAL AND HEALTH SCIENCES; Activities of daily living; disability policy; LSS Act; governance; ICF; participation in society; personal assistance; policy refinement; policy tool; public policy; social security; Sweden; UNCRPD; Hälso- och sjukvårdsforskning; Health Care Research;

   Sammanfattning : Personal assistance (PA) is stated in Article 19 of the UNCRPD as an internationally recognised disability right and is operationalised as a measure in the Swedish Act concerning Support and Service for Persons with Certain Functional Impairments (the LSS Act). The Act’s overall policy goal is to promote good living conditions for the eligible persons by enabling participation in society on equal terms with others. LÄS MER

3. 2. This is not citizenship. Analysing the claims of disability activists in Sweden

   Författare :Marie Sépulchre; Sandra Torres; Rafael Lindqvist; Angharad Beckett; Uppsala universitet; []
   Nyckelord :SAMHÄLLSVETENSKAP; SOCIAL SCIENCES; citizenship; disability; activism; social struggles; social stratification; social media; daily newspapers; rights; costs; equality; difference; state; Sweden; Sociology;

   Sammanfattning : This dissertation aims to contribute to sociology, citizenship studies and disability studies by responding to T.H. Marshall’s ([1950]1992) invitation to examine the development of equal citizenship in a context of structural inequality, and Jenkins’ (1991) call to consider disability as a dimension of social stratification. LÄS MER

4. 3. Which Entitlements and for Whom? The Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities and its Ideological Antecedents

   Författare :Anna Bruce; Juridiska institutionen; []
   Nyckelord :SAMHÄLLSVETENSKAP; SOCIAL SCIENCES; ICIDH; the International Classification of Impairments Disabilities and Handicaps; the right to health; human rights law; impairment; disability; CRPD; The Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities; the Social Model of Disability; the International Classification of Functioning Disability and Health; ICF; the Minority Group Model of Disability;

   Sammanfattning : The Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities (CRPD), adopted by the UN in 2006, represents the coming of age of a human rights approach to disability. In doing so, it provides answers to the questions what ‘disability’ is, who ‘persons with disabilities’ are and what entitlements are legitimate and relevant in relation to ‘disability’. LÄS MER

5. 4. "Participation is everything" : young people's voices on participation in school life

   Författare :Jeanette Åkerström; Brunnberg Elinor; Osman Aytar; Ann Quennerstedt; Nigel Thomas; Örebro universitet; []
   Nyckelord :SAMHÄLLSVETENSKAP; SOCIAL SCIENCES; children’s rights; human rights; participation; youth; interactive research; mixed methods; communication; intersectionality; disability; Social Work; Socialt arbete;

   Sammanfattning : This thesis shows that participation is an important and comprehensive concept for young people. The aim of the thesis is to explore young people’s perspectives on and experiences of participation in school. Young people are in this research project understood as competent participants and as valuable contributors in research. LÄS MER

7. 5. Assistive technology, human rights and poverty in developing countries. Perspectives based on a study in Bangladesh

   Författare :Johan Borg; Socialmedicin och global hälsa; []
   Nyckelord :MEDICIN OCH HÄLSOVETENSKAP; MEDICAL AND HEALTH SCIENCES; disability; developing countries; assistive technology; Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities; human rights; low-income countries; poverty;

   Sammanfattning : Deprived of human rights, more than half of all people with disabilities in developing countries live in extreme poverty. Although considered a prerequisite for equalization of opportunities, about nine out of ten of those who need assistive technologies do not have access to them. LÄS MER