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Resources on Respect, Diversity and Inclusion in Health: Disability

Disability refers to the limitations experienced by a person when interacting with their environment due to a physical or mental condition. People with disabilities face barriers including stigmatization and discrimination when accessing healthcare. 

Recognizing these factors is one way providers can help to facilitate accessible environments. https://guides.hsict.library.utoronto.ca/cmcc_edi

The circus train
Creating accessible online instruction using universal design principles : a LITA guide
Delivering quality healthcare for people with disability
Disability Visibility: first-person stories from the twenty-first century
Living with Chronic Illness and Disability: principles for nursing practice
Orthotics and prosthetics in rehabilitation
Care Work: dreaming disability justice

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Adapted from Reed College Library, licensed under a Creative Commons CC-BY Attribution 4.0