In this new edition, the editors and contributors update and expand on the educational framework that was introduced in the first edition for rethinking disability in public health study and practice and for attaining the competencies that should accompany this knowledge.

The second edition highlights key areas of research that have emerged since the first edition was published. This edition includes new and updated chapters that have particular relevance for public health practice:

Disability, Intersectionality, and Inequity: Life in the Margins

Disability and Health Programs: Emerging Partners

Children with Special Healthcare Needs

Disasters and Disability: Rhetoric and Reality

Inter-relationship of Health Insurance and Employment for People with Disabilities

Public Health, Work, and Disability

Actions to Prepare a Competent Workforce

Public Health Perspectives on Disability: Science, Social Justice, Ethics, and Beyond, 2nd Edition, is an essential resource for public health educators and practitioners as well as students in graduate schools of public health throughout the United States.