Ableism in Health Care

Affiliations

¹ Joyce Carolyn Graff is a professor and Jennifer H. Russell is a doctoral student, both at the University of Tennessee Health Science Center in Memphis. Contact author: Joyce Carolyn Graff, jgraff@uthsc.edu . The authors have disclosed no potential conflicts of interest, financial or otherwise.

Joyce Carolyn Graff et al. Am J Nurs. 2023.

. 2023 Feb 1;123(2):23-24.

doi: 10.1097/01.NAJ.0000919712.93900.29.

¹ Joyce Carolyn Graff is a professor and Jennifer H. Russell is a doctoral student, both at the University of Tennessee Health Science Center in Memphis. Contact author: Joyce Carolyn Graff, jgraff@uthsc.edu . The authors have disclosed no potential conflicts of interest, financial or otherwise.

Abstract

Improving our knowledge of disability can reduce stereotypes and stigma.

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