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- Lundälv, Jörgen, 1966, et al.
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Awareness and the Arguments for and against the International Classification of Functioning, Disability and Health among Representatives of Disability Organisations
- 2015
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Ingår i: International Journal of Environmental Research and Public Health. - : MDPI AG. - 1660-4601 .- 1661-7827. ; 3:12, s. 3293-3300
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Tidskriftsartikel (refereegranskat)abstract
- Disability organisations have not been engaged in the debate about the International Classification of Functioning, Disability and Health (ICF) in Sweden. We wanted to know representatives’ attitudes about the ICF. The aim of the study was to elucidate the arguments for and against the ICF among representatives of disability organisations. The study consisted of eighteen representatives (from six disability organisations) that answered electronic questionnaires. The questionnaires involved ten open questions about the arguments for and against the ICF. The answers of the questionnaires have been categorized according to qualitative content analysis. Our results indicated four themes: awareness, arguments for and against, influence and the future. More than half of the representatives had very limited awareness of the ICF. There was an explicit criticism of individual classification but more positive comments about classification on an aggregated level. The most important issue for representatives was influencing social policy in society, not learning and spreading information about the ICF.
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- Lundälv, Jörgen, 1966, et al.
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The ICF: International Classification of Functioning, Disability and Health (ICF) - A Swiss army knife? Accessibility and disability in a Scandinavian disability magazine (SDM) - A quantitative content analysis
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Ingår i: Health Policy. - : Elsevier BV. - 0168-8510 .- 1872-6054. ; 108:1, s. 67-75
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Tidskriftsartikel (refereegranskat)abstract
- Background The study describes the extent to which the concept of accessibility and accessibility issues has been reported in a national Scandinavian disability magazine. In this study particular attention is paid to how the compatibility between the various domains of the international classification – International Classification of Functioning, Disability and Health (ICF) – has been covered in the magazine over a decade. Furthermore, other types of descriptions that the magazine has made of accessibility for people with physical disabilities are considered. Methods The study is based on a quantitative content analysis of a total of 326 articles from the Swedish disability magazine (SDM); 450 text pages published during the years 2000–2009. The magazine's coverage has been comprehensive. Results and conclusions More than half of the studied texts were news items about various accessibility issues. Every third article can be characterised as a news article or feature article. The most frequently reported of the ICF domains consist of two perspectives: environmental accessibility and civil rights. Public opinion articles in the form of letters to editors and editorials focused on accessibility have a low frequency. Likewise, research reports are few. The study has included a review of illustrations and photographs. The illustrations are generally of high quality, reinforcing the disability message of the article. Keywords Accessibility; Disability; Swedish disability magazine (SDM); Quantitative content analysis; The International Classification of Functioning; Disability and Health (ICF); Sweden
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- Törnbom, Marie, 1950, et al.
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Occupations and means of living in adults with cerebral palsy or meningomyelocele during two decades in Sweden.
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Ingår i: Scandinavian Journal of Disability Research. - : Stockholm University Press. - 1501-7419 .- 1745-3011. ; 13:1, s. 21-35
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Tidskriftsartikel (refereegranskat)abstract
- The aim of this study was to focus on education, work and means of living during two decades in two groups of people with cerebral palsy (CP) or meningomyelocele (MMC) within the framework of social policies. Two groups of patients at an adult habilitation unit were interviewed by telephone – Group A (n=55) in 1983 and again in 1997 (n=42), and Group B (n=30) in 1997. All but one subject in Group B had attended upper secondary school (1997), compared with 61% in Group A (1983). In 1983, a majority of Group A worked or studied. In 1997, most of them still worked or studied, compared with only two thirds of the 1997 Group B, but both the A and B groups worked part-time significantly more often in 1997 compared with Group A in 1983. Of those who worked, about one third of Group A and more than half of Group B had wage subsidies from the state in both 1983 and 1997. The majority of Group A thought that over the period from 1983–97 the labour market had generally become harder, which had affected people with disabilities in general in a negative way. Almost all in Group A in 1983 and Group B in 1997 were content with their work tasks and work environment, but one third of Group A had problems within these areas in 1997. Significantly more people had disability pensions, of varying amounts, in 1997 (A and B groups) than in Group A 1983. In conclusion, it seems as if social policies have managed to integrate these people into the regular educational systems and support them financially, but have failed to stimulate the labour market to offer them work, especially regular and permanent work without wage subsides.
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