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Intersectionality
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NICE Guideline NG227 - Advocacy services for adults with health and social care needs
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The interconnection of social categorisations such as age, disability, gender reassignment, pregnancy and maternity, marriage or civil partnership, race, religion or belief, sex and sexual orientation and other characteristics or experiences listed in box 2, creating unique overlapping and interdependent systems of discrimination or disadvantage. (NG227) The term describes the interconnected nature of social categorisations such as age, disability, gender reassignment, pregnancy and maternity, race, religion or belief, sex and sexual orientation and other characteristics or experiences listed in box 1, regarded as creating overlapping and interdependent systems of discrimination or disadvantage. (NG216)
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