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Record W7117562338 · doi:10.1080/09687599.2025.2608584

Public toilet provision for people with disabilities: a critical narrative literature review

2025· article· en· W7117562338 on OpenAlexaff
Rhonda Cheryl Solomon, Ronald Buliung, Timothy Ross

Bibliographic record

VenueDisability & Society · 2025
Typearticle
Languageen
FieldSocial Sciences
TopicGender Studies and Social Issues
Canadian institutionsHolland Bloorview Kids Rehabilitation Hospital
Fundersnot available
KeywordsNarrativePerspective (graphical)ToiletQualitative researchNarrative inquiry

Abstract

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Away-from-home toileting facilities actively determine our idea of the natural and the social and, by extent, of belongingness and sense of self. Yet inequitable access to workable and flexibly accessible (i.e., works for many bodies) toileting facilities produces unreasonable restrictions in the everyday lives of many disabled persons. This critical narrative literature review is centred on the intersection of disabled bodies and public toilets and engages with the question, ‘How do inaccessible public toilets create exclusionary urban landscapes for people with disabilities?’ Review findings are organized around five inductively derived themes that emerged from a critical reading of the literature about public toilet provision and disability. These themes include: (1) Ableism and psychoemotional disablism, (2) Participation and inclusion, (3) Identity and personhood, (4) Geographic maturity and spatial scripts, and (5) Gender and gender identity. We find that a spectrum of ableist attitudinal and applied approaches define the public toilet space.

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How this classification was reachedexpand

Full frame machine prediction

Teacher imitation

Not calibrated prevalence, not ground truth. Human validation pending. The Gemma side is a direct model label for every work in the frame, read from the title-only record. The Codex side is a classifier learned from the 10,348 direct Codex labels and calibrated to design-weighted sample rates; fields without enough sample support carry no Codex call. Candidate is the union of the two sides; consensus is their intersection. These outputs are machine_predicted_unvalidated and are not human labels.

metaresearch head score (Codex)0.011
metaresearch head score (Gemma)0.026
Version: metacan-v3-hybrid-931329e0061cValidation status: machine_predicted_unvalidated
Candidate categoriesnone
Consensus categoriesnone
DomainCandidate signal: none · Consensus signal: none
Study designCandidate signal: Not applicable · Consensus signal: none
GenreCandidate signal: Review · Consensus signal: Review
Teacher disagreement score0.011
Threshold uncertainty score0.068

Distilled classifier scores by category (both heads)

CategoryCodexGemma
Metaresearch0.0110.026
Meta-epidemiology (narrow)0.0010.000
Meta-epidemiology (broad)0.0010.001
Bibliometrics0.0080.008
Science and technology studies0.0030.004
Scholarly communication0.0060.007
Open science0.0010.003
Research integrity0.0020.002
Insufficient payload (model declined to judge)0.0030.000

Machine scores (provisional)

The two teacher heads of the student model, read on this work. A score orders the frame for review; it never asserts a category, and the validation status ships verbatim with every row.

Baseline scores from an immature model (maturity gate not passed, 7 training rounds). Scores rank; they never assert a category.

Opus teacher head0.042
GPT teacher head0.379
Teacher spread0.337 · how far apart the two teachers sit on this one work
Validation statusscore_only:v0-immature-baseline · verbatim from the scoring run: score_only means the number may rank works, and no category label ships from it

Classification

machine, unvalidated

Machine predicted; a candidate call from one source (direct Gemma or distilled Codex), not a consensus.

The models applied no category: nothing in the taxonomy fit this work.
Study designNot applicable
Domainnot available
GenreReview

How this classification was reached, model by model and score by score, is at the end of the page under "How this classification was reached".

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