Shifting the discourse on disability: Moving to an inclusive, intersectional focus.

ABSTRACT: Individuals with disabilities comprise one of the largest marginalized groups in the United States and experience systemic barriers in health care. In Westernized communities, disability has historically been conceptualized via the medical model, which considers disability an individual-level deficit in need of correction. Although other models of disability (e.g., social model) have been developed to address the medical model's ableist shortcomings, these fail to consistently acknowledge intersectionality. Specifically, these models fail to consider that (a) a disabled individual may hold other marginalized or oppressed identities and (b) these intersecting oppressions may exacerbate health inequities. Intersectionality, which originates from Black feminist literature, describes the ways

SUBMITTER: Brinkman AH 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC9951269 | biostudies-literature | 2023

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature