Summary of Week 1
We have now reached the end of Week 1. By now you should have a clearer understanding of what disability is, and why it is important to the global development …
Course: Global Health and Disability
Why does impairment matter?
Earlier this week, we introduced our three fictional case studies – Santhi, Maria and Joseph. Now that we’re a bit more familiar with impairment as a component of disability, we’d …
What are the common impairments related to disability?
Activity 3 provided us with an introduction into how disability is conceptualised in global health, including the importance of differentiating between the individual’s impairment, or health condition, and their broader …
What is the relationship between impairments and disability?
In this video, we will hear from a range of health and rehabilitation professionals, who will discuss the need to understand the relationship between “impairments” and “disability” in their work. …
How to Measure Disability and Why It Is Important
In this article, Professor Hannah Kuper (Lead Educator, LSHTM), Dr. Sarah Polack (LSHTM) and Dr. Islay Mactaggart (LSHTM) discuss why and how to measure disability across different populations. The importance …
What does disability mean – a framework
As we’ve heard over the last few steps, disability is quite a complex term that many people describe in different ways. In this step, Dr. Islay Mactaggart (LSHTM) provides an …
Attitudes to disability
The last step explored what having a disability means to individuals, from a personal perspective. In this step, Professor Tom Shakespeare from the University of East Anglia contextualises previous debate …
What does disability mean: personal perspectives
Our next activity this week focuses on explaining how disability is understood in a global health framework. In this first step, we will hear from a range of persons with …
“Nothing about us without us”: Disability, the SDGs and the UNCRPD
In this article, Dr. Elizabeth Lockwood, CBM’s Representative to the United Nations, explains the history of the “Nothing about us without us” movement, and how this supported the inclusion of …
Why does disability matter to International Development – Part 1
The last few steps have shown us why disability matters both globally, and in terms of the personal experiences and perspectives of people with disabilities from different places around the …
Why does disability matter: Individual case studies from three countries
We’ve now begun exploring why disability matters, both on a global level and through hearing some personal experiences from people with disabilities living in different contexts. As we continue our …
Why does disability matter: Personal perspectives
In this step, listen to people with disabilities, and the mother of a child with a disability, from around the world sharing their personal perspectives about why disability matters to …
Learning with us
If this is your first course, please review ‘Using FutureLearn’ for an introduction to learning with FutureLearn. We’re delighted that you’ve joined the course and wish you a warm welcome …
Why does disability matter globally?
This step is introduced by Yetnebersh Nigussie, Senior Inclusion Advisor for disability NGO Light for the World. Following this introduction, Dr Islay Mactaggart (LSHTM) shares some key global data on …
