Download or read book Tonga Disability Survey 2018 written by and published by . This book was released on 2018 with total page 69 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Disability in Tonga written by Tonga. Statistics Department and published by . This book was released on 2019 with total page 24 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book 2006 Tonga National Disability Identification Survey written by Dimity Taylor and published by . This book was released on 2006 with total page 98 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Tongan Beliefs Around Disability written by and published by . This book was released on 1998 with total page 108 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Handbook of Disability written by Marcia H. Rioux and published by Springer Nature. This book was released on with total page 1801 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Disability and Poverty written by Eide, Arne H. and published by Policy Press. This book was released on 2011-05-31 with total page 253 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book is about being disabled and being poor and the social, cultural and political processes that link these two aspects of living in what has been characterised as a "vicious circle" (Yeo & Moore 2003). It is also about the strengths that people show when living with disability and being poor. How they try to overcome their problems and making the best out of what little they have. This book will appeal to academics, postgraduates and policymakers in disability studies, development studies, poverty and social exclusion
Download or read book Country Diagnostic Study on Long Term Care in Tonga written by Asian Development Bank and published by Asian Development Bank. This book was released on 2021-11-01 with total page 116 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This publication presents findings of a study on the availability and provision of long-term care (LTC) in Tonga. It discusses the need for and supply of LTC in the country, including regulatory and policy frameworks, service provision, quality management, human resources, and financing. Analysis, conclusions, and recommendations for the development of LTC systems in Tonga are also included. Aiming to contribute to increasing the knowledge base on LTC policies, programs, and systems, this publication is one of six country diagnostic studies—the others on Indonesia, Mongolia, Sri Lanka, Thailand, and Viet Nam—prepared under the Asian Development Bank technical assistance 9111: Strengthening Developing Member Countries’ Capacity in Elderly Care.
Download or read book Being Heumann written by Judith Heumann and published by Beacon Press. This book was released on 2020-02-25 with total page 458 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A Publishers Weekly Best Book of the Year for Nonfiction "...an essential and engaging look at recent disability history."— Buzzfeed One of the most influential disability rights activists in US history tells her personal story of fighting for the right to receive an education, have a job, and just be human. A story of fighting to belong in a world that wasn’t built for all of us and of one woman’s activism—from the streets of Brooklyn and San Francisco to inside the halls of Washington—Being Heumann recounts Judy Heumann’s lifelong battle to achieve respect, acceptance, and inclusion in society. Paralyzed from polio at eighteen months, Judy’s struggle for equality began early in life. From fighting to attend grade school after being described as a “fire hazard” to later winning a lawsuit against the New York City school system for denying her a teacher’s license because of her paralysis, Judy’s actions set a precedent that fundamentally improved rights for disabled people. As a young woman, Judy rolled her wheelchair through the doors of the US Department of Health, Education, and Welfare in San Francisco as a leader of the Section 504 Sit-In, the longest takeover of a governmental building in US history. Working with a community of over 150 disabled activists and allies, Judy successfully pressured the Carter administration to implement protections for disabled peoples’ rights, sparking a national movement and leading to the creation of the Americans with Disabilities Act. Candid, intimate, and irreverent, Judy Heumann’s memoir about resistance to exclusion invites readers to imagine and make real a world in which we all belong.
Download or read book A Deeper Silence written by Joanna Spratt and published by . This book was released on 2013 with total page 180 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Disability International Development written by Malcolm Maclachlan and published by Springer Science & Business Media. This book was released on 2009-07-21 with total page 229 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: One of the greatest challenges facing modern global health is how to include the most marginalized and impoverished people in international efforts to promote social and economic development. In Disability and International Development disability rights are situated within the broader context of global health and the need for much greater inter-sector collaboration. Reports from a broad cross-section of low- and middle-income countries—locales as diverse as Zimbabwe, Bolivia, Kyrgyzstan, and Papua New Guinea—move beyond surface discussions of "what is working" and "what shows promise" to discuss political and governance contexts, the roles of disabled persons in research by outsiders, concurrent struggles (e.g., women’s or children’s rights), and instructive inroads made by community activists and national Disabled People’s Organizations. The results are provocative, and offer new lenses for viewing both the issues and the populations they affect. Each of the book’s chapters spotlights a topic as representative of the enormity and immediacy of challenges to inclusive global health, including: The impact of international human rights law on domestic law and local traditions. The effect of failed states on the lives of people with disabilities. Empowerment and advocacy: disability organizations and movements. HIV/AIDS interventions with disabled persons. Assistive technologies in low-income countries. Strategies for improving the lives of children with disabilities. Cross-disciplinary as well as cross-cultural, Disability and International Development will attract a wide audience of professionals in rehabilitation, social welfare and human rights; governmental and non-governmental organizations and disabled people’s organizations; researchers and practitioners. It will also be relevant to those working in health and welfare administration, health policy, international aid and development, and human rights. In addition, graduate students in disability studies, public and global health and international development should find this an important guide to the future of these fields.
Download or read book Tongan Families and Children with Disabilities written by Mele'ana Lahaina Koloto and published by . This book was released on 2017 with total page 172 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This thesis is a small scale qualitative research that explores the experiences, views and narratives of Tongan families who have a child with a disability within an Early Childhood Education (ECE) setting in Aotearoa New Zealand. The purpose of this study is to build on existing literature and research, albeit small, and provide insight into the cultural frameworks, values and principles that underpin the anga faka-Tonga – Tongan culture. This research is the first of its kind with reference to Tongan families and children with a disability within an ECE setting in Aotearoa New Zealand, in particular akoteu – Tongan ECE centres. The conceptual framework that underpins this research incorporates Pasifika methodologies. The kakala model is used to describe the processes of research, including the selection of participants, data collection and analysis. The notions of mālie and māfana are employed. These were deemed to be culturally appropriate for this research and its participants. The findings identified the importance of anga faka-Tonga, its values, and the Christian faith for families, and their appreciation for the incorporation of these at their child’s akoteu. The findings also highlighted the need for teachers to be culturally responsive, and provide a learning environment that fosters children’s development. Of particular interest was the ways in which families within this study expressed their perceptions of children as a tāpuaki mei he ‘Otua – a blessing from God. It is envisaged that this study will contribute to the existing research and literature on families’ experiences within the ECE setting, with particular emphasis on Tongan families who have a child with a disability. It is anticipated that this study will provide strategies for how to work more effectively with Tongan families and their children. It is hoped that through this study, ideas may arise to further research within this area.
Download or read book Introducting Disability Concepts with Integrity Into Tongan Cultural Context written by Seluvaia Le'ota Tu'itahi Tahaafe and published by . This book was released on 2003 with total page 131 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Mental Health Public Policy in Global Context written by Timothy Philip Fadgen and published by Springer Nature. This book was released on 2020-09-16 with total page 221 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book explores the development of mental health systems in the Pacific Island Countries (PICs) of Samoa and Tonga through an examination of several policy transfer events from the colonial to the contemporary. Beginning in the 1990s, mental health became an area of global policy concern as reflected in concerted international organisation and bilateral aid and development agendas, most notably those of the World Bank, World Health Organization, and the governments of Australia and New Zealand. This book highlights how Tonga and Samoa both reformed their respective mental health systems during these years, after relatively long periods of stagnation. Using recent scholarship concerning public policy transfer, this book explains these policy outcomes and expands it to include consideration of the historical institutional dimensions evidenced by contemporary mental health systems. This book considers three distinct levels of policy implicated in mental health system transfer processes from developed to developing nations: colonial authority and influence; decolonisation processes; and the global development agenda surrounding health systems. In the process, the author argues that there are in fact three levels of policy change that must be accounted for in examining contemporary policy change. These policy levels include formal policy transfers, which tend to be prescriptive, involving professional problem construction and the designation of appropriate state apparatus for curative or custodial care provision; quasi-formal transfers, which tend to be aspirational and involve policy instruments developed through collaborative, participatory processes; and informal transfers that tend to be normative and include practices by professional actors in delivering service merged with traditional cultural beliefs as to disease aetiology as well as reflecting a deep understanding of the cultural context within which the services will be delivered. This book argues that a renewed focus on the importance of public policy and government institutional capacity is necessary to ensure human rights and justice are secured.
Download or read book Disability and poverty written by Eide, Arne H. and published by Policy Press. This book was released on 2011-05-31 with total page 257 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Available Open Access under CC-BY-NC licence. This book is about being disabled and being poor and the social, cultural and political processes that link these two aspects of living. Environmental barriers, limited access to services and discriminatory attitudes and practice are among key elements that drive disabled people into poverty and keep them there. 'Disability and poverty' explores the lived realities of people with disabilities from across the developing world and examines how the coping strategies of individuals and families emerge in different contexts.
Download or read book Disability in Contemporary China written by Sarah Dauncey and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2020-09-24 with total page 247 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Sarah Dauncey offers the first comprehensive exploration of disability and citizenship in Chinese society and culture from 1949 to the present. Through the analysis of a wide variety of Chinese sources, from film and documentary to literature and life writing, media and state documents, she sheds important new light on the ways in which disability and disabled identities have been represented and negotiated over this time. She exposes the standards against which disabled people have been held as the Chinese state has grappled with expectations of what makes the 'ideal' Chinese citizen. From this, she proposes an exciting new theoretical framework for understanding disabled citizenship in different societies – 'para-citizenship'. A far more dynamic relationship of identity and belonging than previously imagined, her new reading synthesises the often troubling contradictions of citizenship for disabled people – the perils of bodily and mental difference and the potential for personal and group empowerment.
Download or read book The Tonga Book written by Paul W. Dale and published by Airleaf. This book was released on 2006-04 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The remarkable adventures of young William Mariner on a long voyage around the world and his long sojourn in the islands of Tonga whereof he gives a full account of those islands and the conduct of their lives. The author has brilliantly compiled the original manuscript published in 1817 and added his own notations and explanations, bringing fascinating island and inhabitants very much to life.
Download or read book Expert meeting on violence against women and disability meeting summary Geneva Switzerland 10 11 November 2022 written by World Health Organization and published by World Health Organization. This book was released on 2024-05-05 with total page 16 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: As part of the UN Women-WHO Joint Programme on Strengthening Methodologies and Measurement and Building National Capacities for Violence Against Women Data (Joint Programme on VAW Data), WHO/HRP has been leading work to strengthen the measurement of disability and violence against women. WHO/HRP undertook a scoping review to explore how disability and violence are currently being measured in the existing evidence-base. In November 2022, WHO/HRP convened this Expert Group meeting. Technical and advocacy experts participated in the meeting, including women with disabilities, to develop concrete recommendations for approaches and measures to better capture the experiences of violence among women with disabilities. This meeting summary compiles key points from the presentations and discussions at the Expert Meeting. Key recommendations developed during the Expert Meeting are included following the summary.
