Why inclusive treatment of disabled people can avoid health inequities
Schedule
Thu Nov 28 2024 at 05:30 pm to 06:30 pm
UTC+00:00Location
Curtis Auditorium | Newcastle upon Tyne, EN
About this Event
INSIGHTS Public Lecture: When healthcare harms: Why inclusive treatment of disabled people can avoid health inequities by Professor Tom Shakespeare
Tom Shakespeare has been training medical students about disability for nearly 35 years at Bristol, Cambridge, Leicester, Newcastle and Oxford Universities, and the University of East Anglia, as well as with the World Health Organisation. In this lecture, he will review evidence that disabled people suffer inequities in health and explore how healthcare can be inclusive of all.
Biography
Tom is Professor of Disability Research at London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine, and a Fellow of the British Academy. His books include Disability Rights and Wrongs, Disability - the Basics, and The Ha-ha.
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