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View article: “Am i disabled?”: disability and identity management among middle-class persons with disability in Ghana
“Am i disabled?”: disability and identity management among middle-class persons with disability in Ghana Open
Persons with disability experience actual manifestations of stigma (enacted stigma) and imagined or anticipated responses of people to their impairments (felt stigma). These experiences influence their conceptions of their impairments and …
View article: ‘I don’t command the equal respect as my peers’: Middle-class disability, stigma and social expectation in Ghana
‘I don’t command the equal respect as my peers’: Middle-class disability, stigma and social expectation in Ghana Open
Disability spoils the identities of persons with disability and exposes them to stigma. Contrary to the belief that disability stigma is associated with the low social class position, middle-class persons with disability also experience st…
View article: “There is something like a barrier”: Disability stigma, structural discrimination and middle-class persons with disability in Ghana
“There is something like a barrier”: Disability stigma, structural discrimination and middle-class persons with disability in Ghana Open
Discrimination against persons with disability is not just a relational phenomenon. It has a structural dimension that is equally oppressive. Structural discrimination can occur even in places and instances where individual discrimination …
View article: Cognitive disability aesthetics: visual culture, disability representations, and the (in)visibility of cognitive difference
Cognitive disability aesthetics: visual culture, disability representations, and the (in)visibility of cognitive difference Open
Cognitive Disability Aesthetics is a critique of the recurrent erroneous and inadequate representations of cognitive disability in literary and visual art. Disability has, as the author describes, ...
View article: Disability in the media: examining stigma and identity
Disability in the media: examining stigma and identity Open
Disability in the Media is a critique of the stigmatising representations of disabilities in the media and how they affect the lives of people whose conditions are characterised. The book has an in...
View article: Exposing the protected: Ghana’s disability laws and the rights of disabled people
Exposing the protected: Ghana’s disability laws and the rights of disabled people Open
Disabled people in Ghana continue to experience various forms of discrimination and social exclusion. These occur despite the fact that there are several anti-discriminatory laws that are meant to protect the rights of disabled people and …
View article: Is resilience socially constructed? Empirical evidence from Fiji, Ghana, Sri Lanka, and Vietnam
Is resilience socially constructed? Empirical evidence from Fiji, Ghana, Sri Lanka, and Vietnam Open
The objective of this paper is to better understand the various individual and household factors that influence resilience, that is, people⬢s ability to respond adequately to shocks and stressors. One of our hypotheses is that resilience d…
View article: Nurse Practitioners' Attitudes Toward Nonpharmacological Interventions for Individuals Diagnosed with Clinical Depression
Nurse Practitioners' Attitudes Toward Nonpharmacological Interventions for Individuals Diagnosed with Clinical Depression Open
Depression negatively impacts the American economy, and there is a shortage of physicians to provide treatment. Nurse practitioners are viable alternatives to provide high-quality treatment of depression. The project's purpose was to descr…
View article: Quality of life among Ghanaian adolescents living with perinatally acquired HIV: a mixed methods study
Quality of life among Ghanaian adolescents living with perinatally acquired HIV: a mixed methods study Open
In Sub-Saharan Africa, increasing numbers of children with perinatally acquired HIV (PAHIV) are living into adolescence. These adolescents face numerous unique challenges such as parent illness/death and years of medication use. Optimizing…