Which model explicitly includes environmental factors as imposing disability?

Which model explicitly includes environmental factors as imposing disability?

• A. Nagi disability model.
• B. WHO disease model.
• C. Teleological ethics.
• D. Veracity.

Answer: (A)

Disability results from how a person’s impairment interacts with the surrounding environment. In the Nagi model, the pathway goes from a health condition to impairment to functional limitation to disability, but crucially, the environment can amplify or reduce the impact of that impairment. Environmental factors—like physical barriers, lack of accommodations, or social attitudes—can impose disability by making it harder to perform tasks or participate in usual roles, even when the impairment itself is the same. A supportive, accessible environment can lessen disability by enabling more function despite impairment, whereas a hostile or inaccessible setting can magnify disability. This focus on how context shapes functional outcomes is why the Nagi framework explicitly ties environmental factors to the experience of disability.

Disability results from how a person’s impairment interacts with the surrounding environment. In the Nagi model, the pathway goes from a health condition to impairment to functional limitation to disability, but crucially, the environment can amplify or reduce the impact of that impairment. Environmental factors—like physical barriers, lack of accommodations, or social attitudes—can impose disability by making it harder to perform tasks or participate in usual roles, even when the impairment itself is the same. A supportive, accessible environment can lessen disability by enabling more function despite impairment, whereas a hostile or inaccessible setting can magnify disability. This focus on how context shapes functional outcomes is why the Nagi framework explicitly ties environmental factors to the experience of disability.