...Mahtab Ahmad Purpose The purpose of this paper is to assess disabled persons' access to health care, and highlight barriers. Design/methodology/approach A total of 245 rural men and women with physical disabilities were interviewed, to determine their level of access to healthcare services...

... to meaningfully extrapolate the findings beyond the case studies used. Practical implications – The research focused on the informal coping strategy of mutual aid offers a deeper insight into this coping strategy. In exploring the various capital and social barriers to participation, the findings offer ways...

...Richard James White Purpose Much of the contemporary literature surrounding the barriers to community self‐help in the advanced economies has placed great emphasis on capital‐orientated barriers, such as a household's access to financial capital, time capital, human capital and social capital...