Irrespective of disability status, there is a significant difference between poverty and all other human conditions. Register, Oxford University Press is a department of the University of Oxford. Don't already have an Oxford Academic account? There is a close relationship between disability and poverty.Malnutrition, mothers weakened by frequent childbirth, inadequate immunization programmes, and accidents in overcrowded homes all contribute to an incidence of disability among poor people that is higher … It furthers the University's objective of excellence in research, scholarship, and education by publishing worldwide, This PDF is available to Subscribers Only. New York: Teacher's College Press. If you originally registered with a username please use that to sign in. For full access to this pdf, sign in to an existing account, or purchase an annual subscription. Disability and Inequality provides an often overlooked analysis of disability in a developing nation. Disability is defined differently for different purposes. It is clear that people with disabilities have long been treated asmoral and social inferiors, at the same time that they have suffereddistributive injustices of various kinds (see generally, Barclay2018). All rights reserved. Please check your email address / username and password and try again. Not logged in You could not be signed in. For employment purposes in the UK, the definition is contained in the Equality Act 2010: a person is ‘disabled’ if they have a physical or mental impairment which has a substantial and long-term adverse effect on … People with disabilities report seeking more health care than people without disabilities and have greater unmet needs. The study of disability has been largely peripheral to the study of inequality within the discipline of sociology (Green and Barnartt 2016)—an oversight that Green and Gerschick (2016) call “inexplicable given the life circumstances of people with disabilities which rival those of the most disadvantaged groups in the United States.” Disability and Inequality explores the lived experiences of persons with disabilities (PWDs) in Jamaica. 1-3; Morgon Banks & Polack, 2014, p. i; Mont, 2014, p. 24… In the Equality Act a disability means a physical or a mental condition which has a substantial and long-term impact on your ability to do normal day to day activities. T his chapter unearths the demographic characteristics of disability and available social support systems within Jamaica’s environment of sociocultural inequality. State University of New York at Stony Brook. Part of Springer Nature. You are covered by the Equality Act if you have a progressive condition like HIV, cancer or multiple sclerosis, even if you are currently able to carry out normal day to day activities. It also tests whether social disparities (as suggested by the social model of disability) or health disparities (as suggested by the medical model of disability) explain a larger percentage of participation differences. Lucas, Samuel Roundfield (1999) Tracking Inequality: Stratification and Mobility in American High Schools. Published by Oxford University Press on behalf of the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. Giving Voice: Mobile Communication, Disability, and Inequality (The John D. and Catherine T. MacArthur Foundation Series on Digital Media and Learning) Introduction. Disability and Society 12(2): 273 291. Introduction. 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