Nora Groce
Biographic Data
| ID | 118271 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Nora Groce |
| GIVEN NAMES | Nora |
| FAMILY NAME | Groce |
| SIGNATURE | GROCE N |
| AFFILIATIONS | University College London |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-7885-7042 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 58 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 185 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 58 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1984 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 7 |
Photovoice versus Semi-Structured Interviews: A Comparative Study of Qualitative Techniques in the Field of Disability
Objective To compare, from an empirical perspective, the use of photovoice and interviews as qualitative research techniques in health research involving deaf individuals. Methods Two qualitative approaches were compared. Findings from a photovoice study conducted through a participatory action research framework were contrasted with results from semi-structured interviews involving the same population. Results Major differences between the resul…
Road Traffic Accidents and Disability: A global health concern
Worldwide, Road Traffic Accidents (RTAs) are the 8th leading cause of death, and leading killer of children and young adults. An additional 50 million people are seriously injured annually. We argue here that RTAs are also a leading - although rarely acknowledged – cause of disability in low and middle-income countries. The Road Traffic Safety community pays little attention to people disabled in a Road Traffic Accident once they leave medical or…
Health disparities among Deaf communities from Colombia: Assessing communication, technology and healthcare access
INTRODUCTION: Despite efforts to improve health equity, there is still limited knowledge about the number and characteristics of people with disabilities, particularly the Deaf community. Our aim is to use linguistically and culturally adapted research instruments to measure key health indicators and priorities within the Deaf community from a low- and middle-income country-Colombia, contributing to a better understanding of health inequities. ME…
These attitudes are a pressure”: Women with disabilities’ perceptions of how stigma shapes their sexual health choices
Women with disabilities face numerous barriers to achieving sexual health on an equitable basis to others, including stigma about disability and sexuality. Yet, how specific stigmatising beliefs about disability and sexuality influence the choices women with disabilities make about their sexual health has not been studied widely. The present study sought to address this gap in the context of Sierra Leone. Semi-structured interviews were conducted…
Folklore and Disability: An Important-and Too Often Overlooked-Factor in Global Health and International Development Efforts
In this paper, I argue that the field of folklore and folklorists can-and should-make more of a contribution to global health and international development efforts and should be more involved in conversations about social justice and human rights. Drawing on my invited comments at the webinar sponsored by the Fellows of the American Folklore Society entitled "Interrogating the Normal: Folkloristic Engagements with Disability," held on March 25, 2…
The role of the scientific community in strengthening disability-inclusive climate resilience
Clean cooking for every ‘body’: Including people with disabilities in modern energy cooking services in the global south
Clean cooking solutions, with greater access to cleaner and safer cooking fuels than traditional energy sources, are key to ensuring access to affordable, reliable, sustainable and modern energy services for all. However, the needs of the 1 billion people living with disabilities globally who face disproportionate levels of poverty, poor access to nutrition, and challenges with buying and preparing food, have been neglected from discussions aroun…
NGOs and the Promotion of the Sexual and Reproductive Rights of Girls and Young Women with Disabilities in Zimbabwe
This case study investigates strategies used by the NGO Leonard Cheshire Disability Zimbabwe (LCDZ) to promote the SRHRs of girls and young women with disabilities in Zimbabwe. The findings show that LCDZ employed a combination of six strategies. These are: (1) building practical knowledge on SRHRs; (2) increasing community awareness and sensitivity; (3) providing SRHRs-related education; (4) enhancing access to justice and related services for s…
Learning from the Implementation of the Child Nutrition Program: A Mixed Methods Evaluation of Process
Nutrition and feeding interventions are important for children’s growth and development. Holt International’s Child Nutrition Program (CNP) is a child nutrition and feeding intervention. This study aims to describe and explore the implementation of CNP in Mongolia and the Philippines using mixed methods including qualitative and quantitative data analysis. The analysis framework was guided by the WHO’s Monitoring the Building Blocks of Health Sys…
Feeding practices of children within institution‐based care: A retrospective analysis of surveillance data
There is limited information on the feeding practices of 9.42 million children living within institution-based care (IBC) worldwide. Poor feeding practices can predispose or exacerbate malnutrition, illness and disability. Here we describe the feeding practices of children living within IBC based on a retrospective analysis of records from 3335 children, 0-18 years old, participating in Holt International's Child Nutrition Program (CNP), from 36 …
Translation and research outcomes of the Bridging the Gap project: A case of the Luo language, spoken in northern Uganda
This article is one of the outputs of a research study conducted between 2015 and 2018 on national development and disabilities in four African countries. It focuses on the Uganda’s Luo language translation of the English instruments used in the study. The purpose was to identify possible guidelines for future researchers undertaking similar translations. One of the main lessons learnt is that translation is a process and requires cooperation amo…
The work lives of disabled teachers: Revisiting inclusive education in English schools
Globally there is a focus on ensuring a more diverse teaching workforce ensuring representation across gender, sexual orientation, race and ethnicity. However, little attention is paid to ensuring the inclusion of disabled teachers. This paper examines the work lives of ten disabled teachers in schools across England. Their experiences suggest that whilst there is a strong discourse on inclusive education within English schools and policies this …
Long-term outcomes for children with disability and severe acute malnutrition in Malawi
INTRODUCTION: Severe acute malnutrition (SAM) and disability are major global health issues. Although they can cause and influence each other, data on their co-existence are sparse. We aimed to describe the prevalence and patterns of disability among a cohort of children with SAM. METHODS: A longitudinal cohort study in Malawi followed SAM survivors up to 7 years postdischarge. Clinical and anthropometric profiles were compared with sibling and c…
The impact of an inclusive education intervention on learning outcomes for girls with disabilities within a resource-poor setting
Findings suggest that the intervention was successful in engendering additional improvements in the educational attainment of girls with disabilities from the resource-poor Lakes region of Kenya. Results highlight both the applicability of NGO-led interventions in settings, where national implementation of inclusive education is constrained, and the potential of taking such interventions to scale
Prevalence and Predictors of Smoking among Gambian Men: A Cross-Sectional National WHO STEP Survey
The study reveals a high prevalence of smoking among Gambian men. It is evident that cigarettes are obtained by minors in The Gambia, as a high proportion of current smokers started at a young age. Advice and support to quit smoking should be extended to all smokers regardless of their age and whether or not they have any underlying health conditions
Exploring Partnerships between Academia and Disabled Persons’ Organisations: Lessons Learned from Collaborative Research in Africa
In this article, we discuss how our academic research on disability and international development in five African countries has benefited hugely from active collaboration with advocates, practitioners, and policymakers, ultimately ensuring that research evidence is used to inform policy and practice. Whilst building such partnerships is seen as good practice, it is particularly important when working on disability issues, as the clarion call of t…
Long-lasting consequences of war on disability
This article investigates the impact of exposure to United States air force bombing during 1965-75 on the disability status of individuals in Vietnam in 2009. Using a combination of national census and US military data and an instrumental variable strategy which exploits the distance to the former North-South border as a quasi-experiment, the article finds a positive and significant impact of bombing exposure on district level disability rates 40…
The UCL–Lancet Commission on Migration and Health: The health of a world on the move
Disability
The now widely accepted “social” model of disability allows us to better understand how the lives of persons with disabilities are shaped by the interplay of individuals' specific impairments and the prevailing beliefs, attitudes, and assumptions of the societies in which they live. Over a billion people—15 percent of the world's population—live with a disability, and people with disabilities routinely (but not always) are among the most marginal…
The impact of an inclusive education intervention on teacher preparedness to educate children with disabilities within the Lakes Region of Kenya
There has been little empirical study within low- and middle-income countries on how to effectively prepare teachers to educate children with disabilities. This paper reports on the impact of an intervention designed to increase teaching self-efficacy, improve inclusive beliefs, attitudes and practices, and reduce concerns around the inclusion of children with disabilities within the Lakes region of Kenya. A longitudinal survey was conducted with…
Socioeconomic inequality in recovery from poor physical and mental health in mid-life and early old age: Prospective Whitehall II cohort study
BACKGROUND: Few studies have examined the influence of socioeconomic status on recovery from poor physical and mental health. METHODS: Prospective study with four consecutive periods of follow-up (1991-2011) of 7564 civil servants (2228 women) recruited while working in London. Health was measured by the Short-Form 36 questionnaire physical and mental component scores assessed at beginning and end of each of four rounds. Poor health was defined b…
Accessible Connecticut: A Guide to Recreation for Children with Disabilities and Their Families
This user-friendly guide helps parents of children with disabilities plan family outings in Connecticut that are stimulating and fun. Intended for youngsters who use wheelchairs or who have visual, hearing, or mental impairments, it presents places throughout the state that are easily accessible and reasonably priced and that require little or no prior planning. The entries are arranged by type of activity. They include places to see animals (zoo…
Extra costs of living with a disability: A review and agenda for research
BACKGROUND: There has been a growing interest in disability and poverty on the international research and policy stages. Poverty assessments for persons with disabilities may be affected by the experience of extra costs associated with a disability. OBJECTIVE: This article provides a systematized review of the global literature on the direct costs associated with living with a disability at the individual or household level. METHODS: We searched …
Using triangulation to assess a suite of tools to measure community severance
There is a lack of tools to identify and measure community severance caused by large roads and motorised traffic, despite the evidence of its negative impacts on local communities. This paper reports the development of a suite of tools to measure and value community severance, undertaken as a part of the Street Mobility and Network Accessibility research project. The tools include participatory mapping, spatial analysis, a video survey, street au…
Disabled women's attendance at community women's groups in rural Nepal
There is strong evidence that participatory approaches to health and participatory women's groups hold great potential to improve the health of women and children in resource poor settings. It is important to consider if interventions are reaching the most marginalized, and therefore we examined disabled women's participation in women's groups and other community groups in rural Nepal. People with disabilities constitute 15% of the world's popula…
Disability and Poverty: The Need for a More Nuanced Understanding of Implications for Development Policy and Practice
The international development community is beginning to recognise that people with disabilities constitute among the poorest and most vulnerable of all groups, and thus must be a core issue in development policies and programmes. Yet the relationship between disability and poverty remains ill-defined and under-researched, with few studies providing robust and verifiable data that examine the intricacies of this relationship. A second, linked issu…
The role of the extended family in women's risk of intimate partner violence in Jordan
Impairment as a Human Constant: Cross‐Cultural and Historical Perspectives on Variation
The social science literature on physical disabilities suffers a curious omission in the relative lack of attention paid to a cross‐cultural or historical perspective. We argue that disability is a human constant—that is, all human societies have and have always had disabled members. While the presence of such individuals is a constant, culturally shared responses to them vary greatly across time and social context
Access to health care, reproductive health and disability: A large scale survey in Sierra Leone
Inheritance, poverty, and disability
Inheritance is a significant means of transferring wealth from one generation to the next, and therefore increasingly attracts attention from researchers and policy-makers working on intergenerational and multidimensional poverty.However, until now disabled persons have been overlooked in these discussions.This oversight is particularly unfortunate because, as a group, the estimated one billion people with disabilities (some 15% of the world's po…
From quarantine to condoms: Shifting policies and problems of HIV control in Cuba
This study reviews HIV prevention in Cuba in light of (1) the liberalization of HIV quarantine, (2) the growth in tourism, and (3) the aggressive system of public health promotion. Sixty-two key informants, including Cubans who are HIV-positive, at risk, or working as health professionals, were interviewed during June and July of 1996. Findings include: (1) there is a common public perception that the government's national HIV screening and conta…
The Great Ape Project and Disability Rights: Ominous Undercurrents of Eugenics in Action
The Great Ape Project is an international animal rights movement with the goal of extending rights to nonhuman primates. While the authors of this essay are sympathetic with scholars who seek to ensure humane treatment for these species, they are concerned with the growing tendency by those in the project to draw analogies between nonhuman primates and humans with disabilities. It is felt that scholars in the Great Ape Project, ignoring findings …
HIV/Aids and Individuals with Disability
hallmark of the HIV/AIDS epidemic has been its impact on vulnerable populations. Surprisingly, one of the world's most vulnerable populations -individuals who live with a permanent physical, sensory (deafness, blindness), intellectual, or mental health disability -has been almost entirely overlooked despite the fact that they are at equal or increased risk of exposure to all known risk factors for HIV. It is commonly assumed that individuals with…
The impact of health insurance for children under age 6 in Vietnam: A regression discontinuity approach
Accessing health services at an early age is important to future health and life outcomes. Yet, little is currently known on the role of health insurance in facilitating access to care for children. Exploiting a regression discontinuity design made possible through a policy to provide health insurance to pre-school aged children in Vietnam, this paper evaluates the impact of health insurance on the health care utilization outcomes of children at …
Women With Disabilities in the Developing World: Arenas for Policy Revision and Programmatic Change
It has become standard practice to call attention to the double discrimination against both gender and disability under which women with disability labor. If women with disabilities universally find themselves at greater disadvantage because of these prejudices, their lives are often even more severely curtailed in much of the developing world, where poverty and traditionally negative attitudes toward women and disability are widely, although by …
The impact of an inclusive education intervention on teacher preparedness to educate children with disabilities within the Lakes Region of Kenya
There has been little empirical study within low- and middle-income countries on how to effectively prepare teachers to educate children with disabilities. This paper reports on the impact of an intervention designed to increase teaching self-efficacy, improve inclusive beliefs, attitudes and practices, and reduce concerns around the inclusion of children with disabilities within the Lakes region of Kenya. A longitudinal survey was conducted with…
Surviving polio in a post-polio world
Excitement mounts as the global health and international development communities anticipate a polio-free world. Despite substantial political and logistical hurdles, only 223 cases of wild poliovirus in three countries were reported in 2012. Down 99% from the estimated 350,000 annual cases in 125 countries in 1988-this decline signals the imminent global eradication of polio. However, elimination of new polio cases should not also signal an end t…
Long-lasting consequences of war on disability
This article investigates the impact of exposure to United States air force bombing during 1965-75 on the disability status of individuals in Vietnam in 2009. Using a combination of national census and US military data and an instrumental variable strategy which exploits the distance to the former North-South border as a quasi-experiment, the article finds a positive and significant impact of bombing exposure on district level disability rates 40…
Using triangulation to assess a suite of tools to measure community severance
There is a lack of tools to identify and measure community severance caused by large roads and motorised traffic, despite the evidence of its negative impacts on local communities. This paper reports the development of a suite of tools to measure and value community severance, undertaken as a part of the Street Mobility and Network Accessibility research project. The tools include participatory mapping, spatial analysis, a video survey, street au…
Women's Experience of Group Prenatal Care
Group prenatal care (GPNC) is an innovative alternative to individual prenatal care. In this longitudinal study we used ethnographic methods to explore African American and Hispanic women's experiences of receiving GPNC in two urban clinics. Methods included individual, in-depth, semistructured interviews of women and group leaders in GPNC, participant observation of GPNC sessions, and medical record review. GPNC offered positive experiences and …
The work lives of disabled teachers: Revisiting inclusive education in English schools
Globally there is a focus on ensuring a more diverse teaching workforce ensuring representation across gender, sexual orientation, race and ethnicity. However, little attention is paid to ensuring the inclusion of disabled teachers. This paper examines the work lives of ten disabled teachers in schools across England. Their experiences suggest that whilst there is a strong discourse on inclusive education within English schools and policies this …
Research note: Social catalysts in health promotion implementation: Figure 1
Recent work carried out by WHO has recognised that an assets based approach to health promotion is crucial to support the promotion of population health and to reduce health inequalities. The assets approach was applied in a project aimed at promoting physical activity among women in difficult life situations. Within the participatory and collaborative work of the project, a specific set of assets for health that might initiate social participati…
Folklore and Disability: An Important-and Too Often Overlooked-Factor in Global Health and International Development Efforts
In this paper, I argue that the field of folklore and folklorists can-and should-make more of a contribution to global health and international development efforts and should be more involved in conversations about social justice and human rights. Drawing on my invited comments at the webinar sponsored by the Fellows of the American Folklore Society entitled "Interrogating the Normal: Folkloristic Engagements with Disability," held on March 25, 2…
Clean cooking for every ‘body’: Including people with disabilities in modern energy cooking services in the global south
Clean cooking solutions, with greater access to cleaner and safer cooking fuels than traditional energy sources, are key to ensuring access to affordable, reliable, sustainable and modern energy services for all. However, the needs of the 1 billion people living with disabilities globally who face disproportionate levels of poverty, poor access to nutrition, and challenges with buying and preparing food, have been neglected from discussions aroun…
Disability and the League of Nations: The Crippled Child’s Bill of Rights and a call for an International Bureau of Information, 1931
In Disability Studies the evolution of conceptual models is often portrayed as linear, with a nineteenth-century charity model shifting to the medical model that dominated disability discourse in the twentieth century. This is then assumed to be largely unchallenged until the 1970s, when an emergent Disability Rights Movement re-framed issues into the social model, from which evolved a rights-based model. This paper documents two early efforts to…
Firearm Violence, Disability Rights, and Rehabilitation: Policy Revision in Light of Shifting Demographics
The demographics of disability in the United States are changing. A rapidly increasing minority within the larger disabled population consists of individuals who have become disabled as the direct result of firearm-related violence. This population of individuals differs markedly from those disabled from birth or as a result of accident or chronic illness, causes that have historically been familiar to our established medical and rehabilitation s…
Film Review
Book reviewed in this article: Palm Play . 1980. A film by Alan Lomax Step Style . 1980. A film by Alan Lomax
A Lady Named Baybie . 1980. Produced and directed by Martha Sandlin
Quilts in Women's Lives . 1980. A film by Pat Ferrero
The Land Where Blues Began . 1982. A film by Alan Lomax
Everyone Here Spoke Sign Language: Hereditary Deafness on Martha’s Vineyard
From the 17th to the early 20th century, the population of Martha’s Vineyard manifested an extremely high rate of hereditary deafness. In contrast to the experience of most Deaf people, Deaf Vineyarders were thoroughly integrated into the daily life of the community. How was this possible?
Film Reviews
Book reviewed in this article: Style Wars Electric Boogie
Garlic Is as Good as Ten Mothers. 1980. A film by Les Blank
Child Abuse: The Nonhuman Primate Data . Martin Reite and Nancy G. Caine
Impairment as a Human Constant: Cross‐Cultural and Historical Perspectives on Variation
The social science literature on physical disabilities suffers a curious omission in the relative lack of attention paid to a cross‐cultural or historical perspective. We argue that disability is a human constant—that is, all human societies have and have always had disabled members. While the presence of such individuals is a constant, culturally shared responses to them vary greatly across time and social context
Anthropology in Disability Research and Rehabilitation
People with disabilities make up a significant part of the human family, with estimates of their numbers ranging from the tens to the hundreds of millions worldwide. One highly regarded estimate places the number of significantly disabled individuals—people with serious hearing, vision, mobility, or cognitive impairments—as high as one in every ten persons. Nor are these impairments recent in origin. Any review of written or oral history, or arch…
Mother Father Deaf. Living between Sound and Silence . Paul Preston
Women With Disabilities in the Developing World: Arenas for Policy Revision and Programmatic Change
It has become standard practice to call attention to the double discrimination against both gender and disability under which women with disability labor. If women with disabilities universally find themselves at greater disadvantage because of these prejudices, their lives are often even more severely curtailed in much of the developing world, where poverty and traditionally negative attitudes toward women and disability are widely, although by …
Firearm Violence, Disability Rights, and Rehabilitation: Policy Revision in Light of Shifting Demographics
The demographics of disability in the United States are changing. A rapidly increasing minority within the larger disabled population consists of individuals who have become disabled as the direct result of firearm-related violence. This population of individuals differs markedly from those disabled from birth or as a result of accident or chronic illness, causes that have historically been familiar to our established medical and rehabilitation s…
The Great Ape Project and Disability Rights: Ominous Undercurrents of Eugenics in Action
The Great Ape Project is an international animal rights movement with the goal of extending rights to nonhuman primates. While the authors of this essay are sympathetic with scholars who seek to ensure humane treatment for these species, they are concerned with the growing tendency by those in the project to draw analogies between nonhuman primates and humans with disabilities. It is felt that scholars in the Great Ape Project, ignoring findings …
From quarantine to condoms: Shifting policies and problems of HIV control in Cuba
This study reviews HIV prevention in Cuba in light of (1) the liberalization of HIV quarantine, (2) the growth in tourism, and (3) the aggressive system of public health promotion. Sixty-two key informants, including Cubans who are HIV-positive, at risk, or working as health professionals, were interviewed during June and July of 1996. Findings include: (1) there is a common public perception that the government's national HIV screening and conta…
HIV/Aids and Individuals with Disability
hallmark of the HIV/AIDS epidemic has been its impact on vulnerable populations. Surprisingly, one of the world's most vulnerable populations -individuals who live with a permanent physical, sensory (deafness, blindness), intellectual, or mental health disability -has been almost entirely overlooked despite the fact that they are at equal or increased risk of exposure to all known risk factors for HIV. It is commonly assumed that individuals with…
Inclusion of Aids educational messages in rites of passage ceremonies: Reaching young people in tribal communities
The impact of HIV on tribal populations has received little attention. Often living in remote areas, further isolated by language, tradition and endogamous marriage patters, members of such communities have been assumed to be at lower risk for HIV. However, there is growing awareness that tribal peoples are sometimes at considerable risk for HIV, as well as other sexually transmitted infections. Young people in such communities may be particularl…
Inside Deaf Culture
Inside Deaf Culture. Carol Padden and Tom Humphries. Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 2005. 208 pp
Research note: Social catalysts in health promotion implementation: Figure 1
Recent work carried out by WHO has recognised that an assets based approach to health promotion is crucial to support the promotion of population health and to reduce health inequalities. The assets approach was applied in a project aimed at promoting physical activity among women in difficult life situations. Within the participatory and collaborative work of the project, a specific set of assets for health that might initiate social participati…
Managing the health effects of climate change
HIV/Aids and disability organisations in South Africa
Despite the seriousness of the HIV epidemic globally, and in South Africa in particular, little is known about how HIV/AIDS affects disabled people. One important and little explored area is the role that organisations that represent disabled people or that work on behalf of disabled people, are playing in addressing the HIV/AIDS epidemic among the disabled people they represent or serve. This paper presents the findings of a nationwide survey of…
The role of the extended family in women's risk of intimate partner violence in Jordan
Illiteracy among adults with disabilities in the developing world: A review of the literature and a call for action
In the early 1990s, UNESCO estimated that perhaps 97% of the world's 650 million disabled persons were unable to read or write, leading to significant efforts throughout the developing world to ensure that all children with disabilities attended school through ‘inclusive education’ programmes. But what of the vast majority of persons with disabilities who now are adolescents or adults, well beyond the reach of classroom education, or the estimate…
Disability and Poverty: The Need for a More Nuanced Understanding of Implications for Development Policy and Practice
The international development community is beginning to recognise that people with disabilities constitute among the poorest and most vulnerable of all groups, and thus must be a core issue in development policies and programmes. Yet the relationship between disability and poverty remains ill-defined and under-researched, with few studies providing robust and verifiable data that examine the intricacies of this relationship. A second, linked issu…
Relationship between distance to social gathering facilities and risk of trachoma for households in rural Tanzanian communities
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