Introduction to the Symposium: Build Back Better? Health, Disability, and the Future of Work Post-COVID
This symposium aims to address the critical junctures of health, disability, and work at the heart of the domestic policy response to COVID-19.
Disability
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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: 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: 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.
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Read more: Reflecting on the Struggle for Disability Rights a Year into the Pandemic Reflecting on the Struggle for Disability Rights a Year into the Pandemic
The pandemic has exacerbated existing social inequalities, disproportionately impacting the already marginalized.
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Read more: Balancing Health Care Rationing and Disability Rights in a Pandemic Balancing Health Care Rationing and Disability Rights in a Pandemic
Amid the present surge of the coronavirus pandemic, it is crucial that disability rights are a factor in the development of triage protocols.
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Read more: Why Buck v. Bell Still Matters Why Buck v. Bell Still Matters
In just three sentences, Justice Holmes delivers a message that has lasted through today: some lives matter more than others.
