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December 9, 2025International Journal for Equity in HealthOpen Access

Addressing ableism in healthcare: integrating critical disability theory into health services research

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EGEllie GooderhamJSJulia SmithRLRuth Lavergne

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Overview

Critical review highlights intersectionality and structural violence in healthcare access for disabled people, suggesting frameworks enhance disability rights advocacy.

Key Points

  • To explore the integration of critical disability theory in health services research, emphasizing the inclusion of disabled perspectives.
  • Non-systematic critical review of existing literature
  • Analysis of critical disability theory tenets
  • Application of theory to the Levesque Framework
  • Identified four tenets of critical disability theory: lived experience, intersectionality, structural violence, and ableism
  • Demonstrated the importance of including disabled perspectives in health services research
  • Highlighted how critical disability theory can improve healthcare access equity for disabled individuals

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Gooderham et al. (2025) studied this question.

synapsesocial.com/papers/69401efa2d562116f28f98adhttps://doi.org/10.1186/s12939-025-02721-x
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