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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 reveals challenges in healthcare access for disabled people, indicating the need for equity and inclusion in research.

Key Points

  • This research aims to integrate critical disability theory into health services research and address ableism.
  • Non-systematic critical review of existing literature
  • Examination of critical disability theory tenets
  • Application of critical disability theory to the Levesque Framework
  • Identified four tenets of critical disability theory: lived experience, intersectionality, structural violence, and ableism.
  • Highlighted the disparity caused by excluding disabled perspectives in research.
  • Proposed frameworks for enhancing disability engagement in healthcare access research.

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Gooderham et al. (2025) studied this question.

synapsesocial.com/papers/69401efa2d562116f28f99e0https://doi.org/10.1186/s12939-025-02721-x
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