Browsing SINTEF Open by Author "Swartz, Leslie"
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Access to health care for persons with disabilities in rural South Africa
Vergunst, Richard; Swartz, Leslie; Hem, Karl-Gerhard; Eide, Arne Henning; Mannan, Hasheem; MacLachlan, Mac; Mji, Gubela; Braathen, Stine Hellum; Schneider, Margie (Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2017)Background Global research suggests that persons with disabilities face barriers when accessing health care services. Yet, information regarding the nature of these barriers, especially in low-income and middle-income ... -
Creative collaboration on a disability and sexuality participatory action research project: A reflective diary account
Rohleder, Poul; Braathen, Stine Hellum; Carew, Mark; Chiwaula, Mussa; Hunt, Xanthe; Swartz, Leslie (Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2018)This article presents a team’s engagement with a creative collaborative project challenging the myths about the sexuality of people with physical disabilities in South Africa. The article is presented as a reflective diary ... -
Dating persons with physical disabilities: the perceptions of South Africans without disabilities
Hunt, Xanthe; Swartz, Leslie; Carew, Mark; Braathen, Stine Hellum; Chiwaula, Mussa; Rohleder, Poul (Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2017)There is good reason to believe that the attitudes of persons without disability towards dating a person with a physical disability might be unfavourable. However, in general, and in the Global South in particular, there ... -
Exploring the interaction of activity limitations with context, systems, community and personal factors in accessing public health care services: A presentation of South African case studies
Mji, Gubela; Braathen, Stine Hellum; Vergunst, Richard; Scheffler, Elsje; Kritzinger, Janis; Mannan, Hasheem; Schneider, Marguerite; Swartz, Leslie; Visagie, Surona (Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2017)Background: There are many factors that influence access to public health services, such as the context people live in, the existing health services, and personal, cultural and community factors. People with disabilities ... -
Factors related to environmental barriers experienced by persons with and without disabilities in diverse African settings
Visagie, Surona; Eide, Arne Henning; Dyrstad, Karin; Mannan, Hasheem; Swartz, Leslie; Schneider, Marguerite; Mji, Gubela; Munthali, Alister; Khogali, Mustafa; van Rooy, Gert; Hem, Karl-Gerhard; MacLachlan, Malcolm (Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2017)This paper explores differences in experienced environmental barriers between individuals with and without disabilities and the impact of additional factors on experienced environmental barriers. Data was collected in ... -
Intimacy, intercourse and adjustments: Experiences of sexual life of a group of people with physical disabilities in South Africa
Hunt, Xanthe; Braathen, Stine Hellum; Swartz, Leslie; Carew, Mark; Rohleder, Poul (Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2018)There is a growing recognition of the sexual and reproductive rights of people with disabilities, and since the World Health Organisation’s World Report on Disability, increased international attention has been given to ... -
Intimacy, intercourse and adjustments: Experiences of sexual life of a group of people with physical disabilities in South Africa
Hunt, Xanthe; Braathen, Stine Hellum; Swartz, Leslie; Carew, Mark; Rohleder, Poul (Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2017)There is a growing recognition of the sexual and reproductive rights of people with disabilities, and since the World Health Organisation’s World Report on Disability, increased international attention has been given to ... -
Sexuality erased, questioned, and explored: The experiences of South Africans with physical disabilities
Rohleder, Poul; Braathen, Stine Hellum; Hunt, Xanthe; Carew, Mark; Swartz, Leslie (Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2018)The sexuality of people with disabilities has historically been a site of oppression and discrimination. The sexuality of people with disabilities remains relatively under-researched and poorly understood. As a result, ... -
Symbolic violence and the invisibility of disability
Swartz, Leslie; Hunt, Xanthe; Watermeyer, Brian; Carew, Mark; Braathen, Stine Hellum; Rohleder, Poul (Journal article, 2018) -
The perceived needs-access gap for health services among persons with disabilities in a rural area within South Africa
Vergunst, Richard; Swartz, Leslie; Hem, Karl-Gerhard; Eide, Arne Henning; Mannan, Hasheem; MacLachlan, Mac; Mji, Gubela; Schneider, Marguerite (Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2018)Purpose: Health should be a universal phenomenon. However, little is known about the relationship between disability status and health issues – particularly in rural areas. This study looks at health issues of persons with ... -
The sexual and reproductive rights and benefit derived from sexual and reproductive health services of people with physical disabilities in South Africa: beliefs of non-disabled people
Hunt, Xanthe; Carew, Mark; Braathen, Stine Hellum; Swartz, Leslie; Chiwaula, Mussa; Rohleder, Poul (Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2017)There is a body of theoretical work, and some empirical research, which suggests that non-disabled people assume people with physical disabilities are not suitable romantic partners, do not have sexual drives or desires, ... -
The sexual lives of people with disabilities within low- and middle-income countries: A scoping study of studies published in English
Carew, Mark; Braathen, Stine Hellum; Swartz, Leslie; Hunt, Xanthe; Rohleder, Poul (Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2017)Background: Although approximately 80% of the global population of people with disabilities reside in low- and middle-income countries (LMICs), very little is known about their sexual lives due to a lack of empirical data. ... -
Withdrawn, strong, kind, but de-gendered: Non-disabled South Africans’ stereotypes concerning persons with physical disabilities
Hunt, Xanthe; Rohleder, Poul; Braathen, Stine Hellum; Swartz, Leslie; Carew, Mark (Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2018)The present paper examines stereotyping in relation to physical disability and gender in the South Africa. Cross-sectional data for the present study were gathered using free response items in a large survey (n = 1990) ...