In their article featured in the Disability & Health issue of Health Affairs, Alina Engelman and coauthors write about the climate-related vulnerabilities that people with disabilities may encounter during acute events.
The authors suggest that policy makers would benefit from integrating disability justice into climate and disaster preparedness policies and practices worldwide.
Engelman
and coauthors define disability justice as a framework that applies across disabilities and that values "access, self-determination, and an expectation of difference.’"
In their analysis, Engelman and coauthors use brief case studies to illustrate how disabled people can be agents of change in climate justice and emergency preparedness efforts spanning the globe.
The authors go on to provide recommendations for developing disability-inclusive climate and emergency preparedness policies.
Today in Forefront, Joshua Horwitz and Spencer Cantrell examine the parameters of Bipartisan Safer Communities Act, assessing both the potential impacts and limitations of the law.
Susan Cantrell argues that the Pre-Approval Information Exchange (PIE) Act of 2022 has the potential to significantly
increase the efficiency of the drug approval process and protect the integrity of pre-approval information.
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Behind The Pages: Disability And Health Issue
Health Affairs' Leslie Erdelack and Ellen Bayer give a peek behind the curtain on the new Disability and Health theme issue.
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