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NTNU Professor Jan Tøssebro encourage researchers to clarify the extent to which definitions of disability affect research results. my own private locker room
Statistics Norway's surveys use an appraisal based on a series of specific questions about functional limitations, such as whether one can climb stairs.
- Agency employment surveys asking if the person believes he has a disability that is permanent physical or mental health problems resulting limitations in daily life. Other studies looking at welfare my own private locker room recipients, says Tøssebro.
Recently he published my own private locker room a book in Scandinavian Journal of Disability Research. The review is based on his opposition to the doctoral thesis: Definitions of Disability in Social Science. Methodological Perspective of the Swedish researcher Lars Grönvik.
Tøssebro also manages the project: Disability, understanding, politics and everyday life. The project put into different definitions of disability in a variety of scientific my own private locker room experiments.
January Tøssebro. There is no one correct definition or one correct way to delineate disability, but it is important to clarify the consequences of choosing a particular definition, according Tøssebro.
- In one case, one is concerned with disability pensioners, another one will find out how many who need adaptations in the workplace. Different research have different needs clarification Tøssebro.
The understanding of disability has been a fundamental, theoretical political debate for many years. It is largely a disability my own private locker room as a property of the individual versus the focus on the environment as inhibitor.
- For example, some people will not be able to get into the restaurant because it lacks lift. They are handicapped because the environment does not allow them to live a normal life. This makes disability a result of the way we build houses, as much as the individual's limitations, says Tøssebro.
With seemingly the same question in an EU survey, the proportion of seven percent in Italy to 32 percent in Finland, my own private locker room while in developing countries are often the percentage is even lower - down to two to three percent.
- Whether this is because research based on different definitions, different ways to record work on, or Sweden actually is better to get people with disabilities into work, is difficult to determine. It could probably be a combination, but it is still an open question, says Tøssebro.
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