Beyond Parity in Mental Health Coverage
The parity framework has proven less adept at rooting out more subtle forms of disparities in mental health coverage restrictions.
Disability
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Read more: The Import of the UNCRPD and Disability Justice for Pandemic Preparedness and Response The Import of the UNCRPD and Disability Justice for Pandemic Preparedness and Response
This commentary outlines three of the more important considerations for international pandemic lawmaking with respect to people with disabilities.
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Read more: How Adult Guardianship Law Fails to Protect Contraceptive Decision-Making Rights How Adult Guardianship Law Fails to Protect Contraceptive Decision-Making Rights
Reform is needed to address the restrictions on reproductive decision-making rights that adults under guardianship currently face.
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Read more: Using Health Justice to Identify Inequities Experienced by Employees with Disabilities Using Health Justice to Identify Inequities Experienced by Employees with Disabilities
A health justice approach would confront how ableism has influenced the development of reasonable accommodations law.
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Read more: Addressing School Discipline Disparities Through the Health Justice Framework Addressing School Discipline Disparities Through the Health Justice Framework
Researchers and advocates have long-documented the disparate punishment and policing of BIPOC students compared to their white peers.
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Read more: Legal Capacity and Persons with Disabilities’ Struggle to Reclaim Control over Their Lives Legal Capacity and Persons with Disabilities’ Struggle to Reclaim Control over Their Lives
Persons with disabilities face an ongoing struggle to reclaim power and control over their lives.
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Read more: Challenges Faced by Employees with Disabilities amid the Return to In-Person Work Challenges Faced by Employees with Disabilities amid the Return to In-Person Work
Calls for getting back to the office raise particular quandaries for employees with disabilities.
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Read more: How Long COVID Is Forcing a Reckoning with the Neglect of Post-Infectious Chronic Illnesses How Long COVID Is Forcing a Reckoning with the Neglect of Post-Infectious Chronic Illnesses
COVID Long Haulers and patient advocates for the chronically ill are forcing an unprecedented recognition for these chronic complex diseases.
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Read more: The Current COVID-19 Surge, Eugenics, and Health-Based Discrimination The Current COVID-19 Surge, Eugenics, and Health-Based Discrimination
We have entered a new stage of erasure of children, of the disabled, and of the vulnerable.
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Read more: Viewing Telehealth Policymaking Through the Lens of Disability Viewing Telehealth Policymaking Through the Lens of Disability
As a means for delivering health care, telehealth will only be as successful as it is accessible to our most vulnerable populations.
