Scholars@Duke
Denise Marie Nepveux

Denise Marie Nepveux

Associate Professor in Orthopaedic Surgery
Orthopaedic Surgery, Occupational Therapy

Selected Publications

Educator perspectives on integrating climate change and environmental sustainability into occupational therapy education.

Journal Article Work · November 2025 BackgroundClimate change has been identified as the biggest threat to global public health.1 Despite the clear connection between negative health outcomes and anthropogenic climate change, there are few guidelines for curricular inclusion within healthcare ... Full text Link to item Cite

Guidelines for Rapport-Building in Telehealth Videoconferencing: Interprofessional e-Delphi Study.

Journal Article JMIR Med Educ · August 7, 2025 BACKGROUND: Telehealth training is increasingly incorporated into educational programs for health professions students and practicing clinicians. However, existing competencies and standards primarily address videoconferencing visit logistics, diagnostic m ... Full text Link to item Cite

Innovative epidemiology instruction for promoting population health thinking in occupational therapy doctoral students.

Journal Article Ann Epidemiol · May 2025 PURPOSE: Recent shifts toward population-based health care and research in health science training programs are vital to reducing health disparities, although students need stronger education in this area. This study aimed to determine if innovative epidem ... Full text Link to item Cite

Social Justice and the Older Worker

Chapter · January 1, 2024 Everyone has the right to work, to free choice of employment, to just and favorable conditions of work and to protection against unemployment.-United Nations, Universal Declaration of Human Rights (1948). ... Full text Cite

Aging Disgracefully: Perspectives on Disability Experience and Activism From Disability Studies and Anthropology

Chapter · January 1, 2024 Objective: The objective of this chapter is to introduce the ways in which insights from disability theory and activism intersect with contemporary theories and activism related to aging. Background: This chapter is motivated by the prospect that disabilit ... Full text Cite

Refusing to go away: The ida benderson seniors action group

Chapter · September 3, 2015 This chapter draws upon critical gerontology, urban studies, and occupational justice to analyze rhetoric and activism surrounding the closure of a popular senior center in downtown Syracuse, New York. In a context of downtown gentrification and entreprene ... Full text Cite

A Content Analysis of Youth Sexual Health Websites: Exploring their Relevance and Accessibility for Youth with Disabilities

Journal Article Health Tomorrow: Interdisciplinarity and Internationality · September 18, 2013 Because web-based campaigns are an important part of health promotion campaigns for youth, this research examines sexual health websites aimed at youth and explores the messages on HIV/AIDS for their relevance and accessibility for youth with disab ... Full text Cite

Navigating risks and professional roles: research with lesbian, gay, bisexual, trans, and queer young people with intellectual disabilities.

Journal Article J Empir Res Hum Res Ethics · October 2012 We examine ethical issues that emerged during a community-based participatory research (CBPR) study in Toronto, Canada, exploring sexual health attitudes and practices among lesbian, gay, bisexual, trans, queer, and questioning (LGBTQ) young people (ages 1 ... Full text Link to item Cite

Seeking safer sexual spaces: queer and trans young people labeled with intellectual disabilities and the paradoxical risks of restriction.

Journal Article J Homosex · 2012 Young lesbian, gay, bisexual, and transgender (LGBT) people labeled with intellectual disabilities have unique sexual health needs that are not being met. Denial by others of their right to pleasure and the exercise of heightened external control over thei ... Full text Link to item Cite

Producing African Disability through Documentary Film: Emmanuel's Gift and Moja Moja

Journal Article Journal of Literary & Cultural Disability Studies · January 2010 Full text Cite

Reclaiming Agency, Ensuring Survival: Disabled Urban Ghanaian Women's Negotiations of Church and Family Belonging

Journal Article Disability Studies Quarterly · September 15, 2006 This paper draws from a narrative ethnography of women members of disabled people's organizations (DPOs) in Accra, Ghana. Through recounting their autobiographical stories, elicited in multiple interviews, it explores how they navigate tensions amo ... Full text Cite

Theorising disability as political subjectivity: Work by the UIC disability collective on political subjectivities

Journal Article Disability and Society · August 1, 2002 Disability studies has shown how therapeutic professionals and people with disabilities occupy opposite sides of a deep cultural divide, one that artificially bisects normalcy from 'abnormalcy'. The philosophy of political subjectivity provides an opportun ... Full text Cite