UTS: Health
Some of the issues that face people with disability are quite complex.
Some of the issues that face people with disability are quite complex.
It affects their education and it affect their transport.
It affects their health.
It's not just about disability services and when you have quite complex issues that
can't be dealt with with just sound bites, you really need robust policy and research
to do that and I think a lot of people hold assumptions about what people with disability
can and can't do and we would like this research to debunk a lot of those myths and what we're doing now is actually starting to do that.
We actually can see that Aboriginal people with disability can play a vital contribution
to Australian society.
They kind of need to be given a chance and I think what this research, it's not just tackling the systemic barriers but a lot of the attitudes that people might hold both for Aboriginal people and people with disability.
Pairing up with our supervisor Joanne Travaglia's intellectual framing to what we're seeing on the ground. What we actually need, we actually need to have research interface with the community
and community interfacing with Policy.
So policy down some of the system limitations that are holding people back. So we need community, research and policy to work in harmony and I think that's why UTS, the Faculty of Health is a good pairing for us.
Health is not just about how many doctors and hospitals you have, it's about a right to health and some of the attitudinal barriers that people face are as I was limiting as not being able to go to the doctor in the first place.
So that's what this research is showing and having that rigor behind it just makes it more palatable for policy people to go yeah, there has been a process through this.
This is not hearsay or anecdote or a case study, this is a robust process which is identifying
the main themes and issues about what is important that needs to be done.
