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Indigenous Community Views of Disability in Canada: Protocol for a Scoping Review Open
Background Indigenous people do not necessarily view disability in the same way as do other groups. Indigenous concepts of disability are connected to their ancestral history, cultural customs, and environmental context. Some Indigenous la…
Indigenous Community Views of Disability in Canada: Protocol for a Scoping Review (Preprint) Open
BACKGROUND Indigenous people do not necessarily view disability in the same way as do other groups. Indigenous concepts of disability are connected to their ancestral history, cultural customs, and environmental context. Some Indigenous la…
Competing (ac)counts of disability: situating prevalence studies in Zambian disability policymaking Open
Research is a critical starting point for public policy. For disability policy, the calculation of prevalence – the percentage of persons with disabilities in a population – has attracted significant attention. Multiple disability prevalen…
The Search for Justice: Developing a Collaborative Understanding of Health Justice in Physiotherapy Open
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Evidence for employing post-secondary educated youth as research assistants in global health disability research Open
This paper presents a participatory qualitative case review of the employment of postsecondary educated assistants in a global health research program. The research program was initiated by a visiting Canadian researcher who was a supervis…
Analysis of Private Physiotherapy Clinic Web Sites Using a Critical Perspective Open
Purpose: The objective of our study was to analyze visual and textual content of private physiotherapy clinic Web sites with a critical analysis framework. Method: We analyzed 43 private physiotherapy clinics’ Web sites from all regions of…
Disability Focal Point Persons and Policy Implementation Across Sectors: A Qualitative Examination of Stakeholder Perspectives in Zambia Open
Background: Zambia has created new disability policies and updated existing policies to be consistent with the United Nations Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities. These initiatives require the widespread engagement of min…
A Doctoral Student Complementarity Approach (DSCA) for Global Health Research Open
A large and growing number of doctoral students are involved with global health research. Here we outline the Doctoral Student Complementary Approach (DSCA), a strategy to connect doctoral students from high-income countries (HICs) with co…
Contagious precarity: A collective biographical analysis of early-career physiotherapist academics’ experiences of the COVID-19 pandemic Open
Background: The COVID-19 global pandemic, and the policies created to respond to it, has had profound and widespread impacts.We -three early career physiotherapist academics aspiring to emancipatory physiotherapy practice -noticed both com…
Zambian disability policy stakeholder perspectives on the ways that international initiatives influence domestic disability policies Open
Disability has attracted attention in international human rights and development circles and Zambian domestic policy. The purpose of this research was to explore the perceptions of Zambian disability policy stakeholders about the ways that…
Commentary on Shah et al. Open
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Canadian Physiotherapists Want to Talk More About Equity Open
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View article: Exploring the concerns of persons with disabilities in Western Zambia
Exploring the concerns of persons with disabilities in Western Zambia Open
Background: Understandings of disability are rooted in contexts. Despite the world’s significant contextual diversity, postcolonial power dynamics allow influential actors from the global North to imagine that most people across the global…
View article: Exclusion through Attempted Inclusion: Research Experiences with Disabled Persons’ Organisations (DPOs) in Western Zambia
Exclusion through Attempted Inclusion: Research Experiences with Disabled Persons’ Organisations (DPOs) in Western Zambia Open
Disability, CBR and Inclusive Development aims to enhance knowledge in the field of disability and inclusive development, addressing the needs of practitioners, policy makers, DPOs and the scientific community.
View article: Unanticipated productivity: Reflexive analysis of postcolonial disability research shows how productivity can be understood differently
Unanticipated productivity: Reflexive analysis of postcolonial disability research shows how productivity can be understood differently Open
Stimulated by a disjuncture between the expectations and the experiences of conducting research on disability in Zambia, we reflexively reviewed our own research practice to find that it was premised upon an unconscious assumption about th…
Postcolonial Encounters with Disability: Exploring Disability and Ways Forward Together with Persons with Disabilities in Western Zambia Open
The economic and epistemological dominance of the global North has outlived colonialism. This postcolonial dynamic causes impairment in the global South and renders life more difficult for persons with disabilities (PWDs). This dynamic als…
Cultural Humility: A Way of Thinking to Inform Practice Globally Open
"Cultural Humility: A Way of Thinking to Inform Practice Globally." Physiotherapy Canada, 68(1), pp. 1–2