Navigating a way forward: Using focused ethnography and community readiness to study disability issues in Ladakh, India

Disability and Rehabilitation

Volumn 33, Issue 1, 2010, Pages 17-27

  McElroy, Theresa A ^a   Davis, Alexis ^a   Hunt, Cynthia ^b   Dadul, Jigmet ^b   Stanba, Tsering ^b   Larson, Charles ^a  

^a BC CHILDREN S HOSPITAL   (Canada)

^b HEALTH Inc   (India)

Author keywords

community readiness; community based rehabilitation; focused ethnography; ICF; India

Indexed keywords

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; ARTICLE; CHILD; COMMUNICATION DISORDER; COOPERATION; CULTURAL ANTHROPOLOGY; DISABLED PERSON; ETHNIC GROUP; ETHNOLOGY; FEMALE; HEALTH CARE DELIVERY; HEALTH CARE PLANNING; HUMAN; INDIA; INFORMATION DISSEMINATION; INSTRUMENTATION; INTERVIEW; LEADERSHIP; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; PARTICIPATORY RESEARCH; PSYCHOLOGICAL ASPECT; PSYCHOLOGICAL MODEL; RURAL POPULATION; SOCIAL SUPPORT;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; ANTHROPOLOGY, CULTURAL; CHILD; COMMUNICATION BARRIERS; COMMUNITY-BASED PARTICIPATORY RESEARCH; DELIVERY OF HEALTH CARE; DISABLED PERSONS; ETHNIC GROUPS; FEMALE; HELPING BEHAVIOR; HUMANS; INDIA; INFORMATION DISSEMINATION; INTERVIEWS AS TOPIC; LEADERSHIP; MALE; MEDICALLY UNDERSERVED AREA; MIDDLE AGED; MODELS, PSYCHOLOGICAL; RURAL POPULATION; SOCIAL SUPPORT;

EID: 78649826769     PISSN: 09638288     EISSN: 14645165     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3109/09638288.2010.485670     Document Type: Article

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