384 Resources
Internet-based resources
The World-Wide Web is an incredible resource for those who have access to it.
Besides the very useful websites listed for the organizations and print materials on
the previous pages, here we list just a few of the websites we use most frequently
when we look for disability and health information.
Contact
www. wcc-coe.org/wcc/news/contact.html
Contact, published in French, Spanish, English and
Portuguese by World Council of Churches, focuses
on issues of health and healing.
Disability Knowledge and Research
www.disabilitykar.net/learningpublication/
references.html
The Disability Knowledge and Research program,
an effort of Healthlink Worldwide and the
Overseas Development Group of East Anglia
University, aims for better health and quality of
life for people in developing countries. This website
presents their papers, research, etc., including:
Mainstreaming disability in development:
lessons from gender mainstreaming
Carol Miller and Bill Albert (March 2005)
Explains mainstreaming, as a strategy of feminist
advocacy in the context of development, and draws
comparisons with the history of the disability
movement. Includes recommendations for
mainstreaming disability, and compares these with
‘good practices’ in gender mainstreaming.
Mainstreaming disability in development:
India country report
Philippa Thomas (June 2005)
Examines disability in relation to poverty and social
exclusion. The report also highlights ways to integrate
disability into development.
Disability, poverty and
the ‘new’ development agenda
David Seddon and Rebecca Yeo (July 2005)
Looks at changes that have taken place in recent
years around poverty, disability and the relationship
between the two.
Disability World
www.disabilityworld.org
This is a great site that is an internationally focused
news web magazine covering disability issues. The
site is useful in sorting out relevant information and
is in both English and Spanish. Internet users with
slower connections can load the site as text only.
Source International Information
Support Centre
www.asksource.info
Source, is an international information support
centre designed to strengthen the management, use
and impact of information on health and disability.
Source now has over 25,000 information resources
on a range of subjects including HIV and AIDS,
disability and inclusion, mother and child health,
information and communication technology and
participatory communication. Resources are available
online, by CD-ROM and as printed materials.
Table Manners and Beyond:
The Gynecological Exam for Women
with Developmental Disabilities
and Other Functional Limitations.
www.bhawd.org/sitefiles/TblMrs/cover.html
An excellent guide, edited by Katherine M Simpson
and Kathleen Lankasky, for both women with
disabilities and health care workers of how to do
pelvic and breast exams for women with a wide
range of disabilities.
World Enable
www.worldenable.net/women/
A project of several disability organizations with
a great list of resources and a page specifically on
women with disabilities.
A Health Handbook for Women with Disabilities 2007