Public Health Perspectives on Disability

In this new edition, the editors and contributors update and expand on the educational framework that was introduced in the first edition for rethinking disability in public health study and practice and for attaining the competencies that should accompany this knowledge.

The second edition highlights key areas of research that have emerged since the first edition was published. This edition includes new and updated chapters that have particular relevance for public health practice:

- Disability, Intersectionality, and Inequity: Life in the Margins
- Disability and Health Programs: Emerging Partners
- Children with Special Healthcare Needs
- Disasters and Disability: Rhetoric and Reality
- Inter-relationship of Health Insurance and Employment for People with Disabilities
- Public Health, Work, and Disability
- Actions to Prepare a Competent Workforce

Public Health Perspectives on Disability: Science, Social Justice, Ethics, and Beyond, 2nd Edition, is an essential resource for public health educators and practitioners as well as students in graduate schools of public health throughout the United States.

Highlights disability as an emerging area of public health

Supports increased momentum for inclusion of disability in public health education and practice

Explains how disability cuts across major public health emphases

Provides in a single volume the foundation for inclusion of people with disabilities in public health functions — assessment, policy, and assurance