Summary of Week 2
We have now reached the end of Week 2. By now you should have a clearer understanding of the links between health, wellbeing and disability in international development. We now …
Course: Global Health and Disability
Disability spiral
Following the case studies looking at longer term health conditions and disability, Dorothy Boggs (LSHTM) explores the broader links among health, disability and poverty and presents the ‘Disability spiral.’ In …
Health and disability links: malnutrition case study
In this Step, Professor Hannah Kuper (LSHTM) summarises the links among health and disability through a case study of people with disabilities and malnutrition. In this video, she presents an …
Noncommunicable diseases and disability case study
Noncommunicable diseases (NCDs) are a group of conditions characterized by the fact that they cannot be transmitted from person to person. In this step Antony Duttine from LSHTM and Pan …
Neglected Tropical Diseases (NTDs) and disability case study: Trachoma
In this case study, Dr. Esmael Habtamu, a Postdoctoral Research Fellow at the International Centre for Eye Health at LSHTM, introduces the long term health and rehabilitation needs of people …
HIV and disability case study
Our final activity this week introduces links among longer term health conditions and disability. This HIV and disability case study is presented by Muriel Mac-Seing, a member of IDDC’s HIV …
Accessing health services
Through the case studies in the previous steps, we focused on how people with disabilities might have difficulties accessing different health services, such as sexual reproductive health services or mental …
Mental health case study
In this case study, Dr. Julian Eaton, from the Centre for Global Mental Health at LSHTM, and CBM International, discusses mental health. He provides an overview of the field of …
Sexual reproductive health case study
Our next activity introduces why people with disabilities might experience difficulty in accessing health services. In our first case study, an overview of sexual reproductive health and disability is provided …
WASH case study
In this step, ICED Researcher and WaterAid staff member Jane Wilbur provides a case study of the relationship between disability, and Water, Sanitation and Hygiene (commonly known as “WASH”). In …
Violence case study
In the first of our case studies looking at health and wellbeing challenges for people with disabilities from different perspectives, Morgon Banks (LSHTM) presents data and case studies of violence …
Overview of the links between disability and health
In this first step of our second activity this week, Myroslava Tatayrn (Lead educator) provides an overview of the links between disability and health. She will describe why people with …
Health and wellbeing challenges in the context of disability
We’ve now begun to think about health and wellbeing, and what this means in the context of disability. Now, let’s return to our three fictional case studies – Santhi, Maria …
What does health and wellbeing mean in the context of disability?
In this article, Dr. Sarah Wallace (LSHTM) introduces the World Health Organisation’s definition of health and wellbeing, and describes what this means in the context of disability. Defining Health The …
What does health and wellbeing mean: personal perspectives
In this step, listen to people with disabilities from around the world sharing their personal perspectives about what health and wellbeing mean to them. Deus, Brandon, Rida, Richard, Benedict, Emma …
