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As the motu moves beyond the acute phase of the pandemic, and rapidly altered healthcare delivery approaches, disabled people – accounting for almost one-quarter of the population – have largely been forgotten, write Michael Roguski, Tara Officer, Gretchen Good, Solmaz Nazari Orakani, Daniela Händler-Schuster and Karen McBride-Henry
1. Roguski M, Officer TN, Nazari Orakani S, et al. Ableism, human rights, and the COVID-19 pandemic: Healthcare-related barriers experienced by Deaf people in Aotearoa New Zealand. Int J Environ Res Public Health 2022;19(24):17007. https://doi.org/10.3390/ijerph192417007
2. Good GA, Nazari Orakani S, Officer TN, et al. Access to health and disability services for New Zealanders with impaired vision during the COVID-19 pandemic 2020-2022. J Vis Impair Blind 2022;116(6):830–36. https://doi.org/10.1177/0145482X221144324
In this article, Sue Frankland looks at the global problem of wastage of medications, including causes such as overprescribing and non-adherence. She also presents information from her master’s dissertation on how people understand, and respond to, medication expiration dates
Why recognising the signs of dehydration is important...
