Disability & international development
Subtitle: towards inclusive global health
By: Malcolm MacLachlan, Leslie Swartz, editors
Publisher: Springer
Published: 2009
Place of publication: Dordrecht; New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 218
ISBN-13: 9780387938431; 9780387938400
Subjects: Research Design; World health; Gesundheitswesen; Program Evaluation; Legislation & jurisprudence; Socioeconomic Factors; Behinderung; People with disabilities; Developing Countries; Disabled Persons
Other titles: Disability and international development
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: From the local to the global: the many contexts of disability and international development / Leslie Swartz and Malcolm MacLachlan; title: The effect of failed states on the well-being and lives of people with disabilities / Mitchell Loeb; title: The impact of international human rights law on the national laws of Ethiopia from a gender rights and disability rights perspective / Theresa Rouger; title: Building an inclusive national strategy for disabled children in Kyrgyzstan through an application of the BIAS FREE framework / Mary Anne Burke and Andrea Pupulin; title: Networking in disability for development: introducing the African Network for Evidence-to-Action on Disability (AfriNEAD) / Gubela Mji, Siphokazi Gcaza, Natalie Melling-Williams, and Malcolm MacLachlan; title: Building disability research capacity in low-income contexts: possibilities and challenges / Leslie Swartz; title: Empowerment, advocacy and national development policy: a case study of disabled peoples' organizations in Bolivia / Marianne Griffiths, Hasheem Mannan, and Malcolm MacLachlan; title: Cultural challenges in piloting disability  surveys in Papua New Guinea / Patricia Thornton; title: Disability and HIV/AIDS: a key development issue / Poul Rohleder, Leslie Swartz, and John Philander; title: Assistive technology in low-income countries / Arne H. Eide and Tone Øderud; title: Childhood disability in Burkina Faso and Sierra Leone: an exploratory analysis / Cliona O'Sullivan and Malcolm MacLachlan; title: Education, disability, and international development / Petra Engelbrecht, Ansie Kitching, and Willy Nel; title: Listening to the voices of disability: experiences of caring for children with cerebral palsy in a rural South African setting / Joanne Barratt and Claire Penn.