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dc.contributor.authorBrolan, Claire E.
dc.contributor.authorGomez, Miriam Taylor
dc.contributor.authorLennox, Nicholas G.
dc.contributor.authorWare, Robert S.
dc.date.accessioned2017-11-15T05:13:24Z
dc.date.available2017-11-15T05:13:24Z
dc.date.issued2015
dc.identifier.issn2161-6590
dc.identifier.doi10.5195/hcs.2015.203
dc.identifier.urihttp://hdl.handle.net/10072/172369
dc.description.abstractThe Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities has resulted in the involvement of high income countries in international development assistance to people with disabilities in low and middle income countries.  Healthcare tools designed in high income countries and delivered in low and middle income countries may not be appropriate to the context of the lives of people with disabilities.  We undertook a short qualitative study of participants’ views of an Australian-designed comprehensive health assessment tool, with participation from a WHO-Collaborating non-government organisation in regional Philippines. We also examined the participants’ perceptions of the barriers to healthcare for Filipinos with intellectual disabilities.  Responses to the comprehensive health assessment tool were positive although participants agreed that both linguistic and cultural translation would enhance wider use of the tool. The barriers identified included poverty, family isolation, stigma and communication issues as preventing appropriate healthcare delivery to Filipinos with intellectual disability. Consideration must be given to the complexities of transference of healthcare resources to a low and middle income country context, as well as the systemic and cultural barriers to appropriate healthcare provision to people with disabilities.
dc.description.peerreviewedYes
dc.languageEnglish
dc.language.isoeng
dc.publisherUniversity of Pittsburgh * University Library System
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dc.relation.ispartofpageto9
dc.relation.ispartofissue2
dc.relation.ispartofjournalHealth, Culture and Society
dc.relation.ispartofvolume8
dc.subject.fieldofresearchPublic Health and Health Services not elsewhere classified
dc.subject.fieldofresearchcode111799
dc.titleCross-Cultural Understanding of Health Assessments for People with Intellectual Disability: An Australian resource in the Philippines
dc.typeJournal article
dc.type.descriptionC1 - Articles
dc.type.codeC - Journal Articles
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gro.rights.copyright© The Author(s) 2015. This is an Open Access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International (CC BY 4.0) License (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/), which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited.
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gro.griffith.authorWare, Robert


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