ABSTRACT
This chapter explores a range of play-based projects and approaches that exemplify the identification and minimization of societal barriers to inclusion, resulting in opportunities for people with impairments to engage with all the health and wellbeing benefits associated with playful pursuits. Public health, by its very definition, belongs to all the people, and aspires to ‘society’s interest in assuring conditions in which people can be healthy’. The impact of disability on health can be measured through the concept of the ‘disability-adjusted life year’, which describes the global burden of disease on people living with a disability. Societal attitudes have been identified as a major causative factor of disability for people with impairments. Since the introduction of the social model of disability, there have been many changes across the world in terms of the relative status of people with disabilities and how they are treated within society.
