Ebuenyi, Ikenna and Smith, Emma M. and Holloway, Catherine and Jensen, Rune and D'Arino, Lucía and MacLachlan, Malcolm (2020) COVID-19 as social disability: the opportunity of social empathy for empowerment. BMJ Global Healt, 5 (8). e003039. ISSN 2059-7908

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COVID-19 has conferred new experiential knowledge on society and a rare opportunity to better understand the social model of disability and to improve the lives of persons with disabilities. The COVID-19 experience may offer contextual knowledge of the prepandemic lives of persons with disabilities and foster greater social awareness, responsibility and opportunities for change towards a more inclusive society. Information, family and social relationships, health protection and healthcare, education, transport and employment should be accessible for all groups of the population. The means must be developed and deployed to ensure equity – the deployment of resources so that people with different types of needs have the same opportunities for living good lives in inclusive communities. We have learnt from COVID-19 that inclusive healthcare and universal access should be the new normal, that its provision as a social good is both unifying and empowering for society as a whole.

Item Type:	Article
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Keywords:	COVID-19; social disability; social empathy; empowerment; disability;
Academic Unit:	Faculty of Science and Engineering > Psychology Assisting Living & Learning,ALL institute
Item ID:	15299
Identification Number:	https://doi.org/10.1136/bmjgh-2020-003039
Depositing User:	Ikenna Ebuenyi
Date Deposited:	21 Jan 2022 15:30
Journal or Publication Title:	BMJ Global Healt
Publisher:	BMJ Publishing Group
Refereed:	Yes
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Use Licence:	This item is available under a Creative Commons Attribution Non Commercial Share Alike Licence (CC BY-NC-SA). Details of this licence are available here

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