HLST 1010 Chapter Notes - Chapter 14: Disability-Adjusted Life Year, Neoliberalism
6 Dec 2015
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In chapter 14 the main focus is the views between individual pathology and social pathology. Individual pathology which equates to disability as an anomaly and a social burden. Therefore, both biomedical and functional approach focus on the prevention on disability. Inclusion of disabled people seen as a private responsibility. There are two dominant views: disability as an individual pathology which is the biological and functional view of disability and disability as a social pathology which includes environmental and human rights approaches and. Disability as a symptom of societies inability to adapt to individual"s different needs, Both its physical inflexibility such as lack of ramps or mental inflexibility such as workplace policies that put disabled people at a disadvantage to succeed or get hired. Social disadvantage that is present regardless of whether the person is ill or not.
