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Occupational Justice: A Conceptual Review
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The results indicate that perspectives on occupational justice emphasize individuals' unique sets of occupational needs and capacities within particular environments, and that models for occupationally just practice need to be further developed.Abstract:
This paper, the first of two examining the concept of occupational justice, presents the findings of a scoping review of how occupational justice and its associated concepts (occupational deprivation, marginalization, alienation, imbalance or apartheid) have been conceptualized. Its purpose is to examine potential avenues and barriers for development and application of these concepts. The results indicate that perspectives on occupational justice emphasize individuals' unique sets of occupational needs and capacities within particular environments. Based on the idea that participation in occupation can affect health, occupational justice is underpinned by a belief in the right to engage in diverse and meaningful occupations to meet people's individual needs and develop their potential. In the literature, barriers to engagement in meaningful occupation are considered injustices. One impediment to enabling occupational justice in practice is the lack of conceptual clarity about occupational justice and its ...read more
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An Occupational Perspective of Health
TL;DR: Clinicians and students of occupational therapy, as well as other professionals working in public health, will benefit from and relate to this admired and essential text.
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Occupational Justice: Moral Imagination, Critical Reflection, and Political Praxis.
TL;DR: The articles in this special issue reveal the theoretical “fruitfulness” of the construct of occupational justice for illuminating justice issues from an occupational perspective.
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Occupational justice as social justice: The moral claim for inclusion
TL;DR: Whether working towards occupational justice can contribute to realising a just and inclusive society by analysing how occupational justice issues have been argued is questioned.
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Justice, Difference, and the Capability to Function
TL;DR: In this paper, the authors explore challenges inherent to occupational justice work and encourage nuanced theoretical conceptualizations that encompass multiple worldviews and morals, which engender different notions of health, justice, and how to affect them.
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An Occupational Perspective of Health
TL;DR: Clinicians and students of occupational therapy, as well as other professionals working in public health, will benefit from and relate to this admired and essential text.