World report on disability
WHO World Health Organization and the World Bank Group - June 2011
MORE THAN ONE BILLION PEOPLE FACE SOME FORM OF DISABILITY, LANDMARK UN REPORT FINDS
the report that calls for the elimination of barriers that often force the people with disabilities to "the margins of society."
UN press release New York, Jun 9 2011 12:05PM
Website: http://bit.ly/lA7Rab
Available online PDF [349p.] at: http://bit.ly/jcRO7f
"…….More than one billion people in the world live with some form of disability, of whom nearly 200 million experience considerable difficulties in functioning. In the years ahead, disability will be an even greater concern because its prevalence is on the rise. This is due to ageing populations and the higher risk of disability in older people as well as the global increase in chronic health conditions such as diabetes, cardiovascular disease, cancer and mental health disorders.
Across the world, people with disabilities have poorer health outcomes, lower education achievements, less economic participation and higher rates of poverty than people without disabilities. This is partly because people with disabilities experience barriers in accessing services that many of us have long taken for granted, including health, education, employment, and transport as well as information. These difficulties are exacerbated in less advantaged communities.
To achieve the long-lasting, vastly better development prospects that lie at the heart of the 2015 Millennium Development Goals and beyond, we must empower people living with disabilities and remove the barriers which prevent them participating in their communities; getting a quality education, finding decent work, and having their voices heard.
As a result, the World Health Organization and the World Bank Group have jointly produced this World Report on Disability to provide the evidence for innovative policies and programmes that can improve the lives of people with disabilities, and facilitate implementation of the United Nations Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities, which came into force in May 2008. This landmark international treaty reinforced our understanding of disability as a human rights
and development priority.
The World Report on Disability suggests steps for all stakeholders – including governments, civil society organizations and disabled people's organizations – to create enabling environments, develop rehabilitation and support services, ensure adequate social protection, create inclusive policies and programmes, and enforce new and existing standards and legislation, to the benefit of people with disabilities and the wider community. People with disabilities should be central to
these endeavors.
Our driving vision is of an inclusive world in which we are all able to live a life of health, comfort, and dignity. We invite you to use the evidence in this report to help this vision become a reality….." Dr Margaret Chan, Director-General, World Health Organization - Mr Robert B Zoellick, President, World Bank Group
Content
Foreword Professor Stephen W Hawking
Introduction
Understanding disability
What is disability?
Disability and human rights
Disability and development
Disability – a global picture
Measuring disability
Prevalence of disability – difficulties in functioning
Health conditions
Demographics
The environment
Disability and poverty
Needs for services and assistance
Costs of disability
General health care
Understanding the health of people with disabilities
Addressing barriers to health care
Rehabilitation
Understanding rehabilitation
Addressing barriers to rehabilitation
Reforming policies, laws, and delivery systems
Developing funding mechanisms for rehabilitation 106
Increasing human resources for rehabilitation 108
Expanding and decentralizing service delivery
Increasing the use and affordability of technology
Assistive devices
Telerehabilitation
Expanding research and evidence-based practice
Information and good practice guidelines
Research, data, and information
Policies and regulatory mechanisms
Financing
Human resources
Service delivery
Technology
Research and evidence-based practice
Assistance and support
Understanding assistance and support
Barriers to assistance and support
Addressing the barriers to assistance and support
Enabling environments
Understanding access to physical and information environments
Addressing the barriers in buildings and roads
Addressing the barriers in public transportation
Barriers to information and communication
Addressing the barriers to information and technology
Education
Educational participation and children with disability
Understanding education and disability
Barriers to education for children with disabilities
Addressing barriers to education
Work and employment
Understanding labour markets
Barriers to entering the labour market
Addressing the barriers to work and employment
The way forward: recommendations
Disability: a global concern
Recommendations
Recommendation 1: Enable access to all mainstream policies, systems and services
Recommendation 2: Invest in specific programmes and services for people with disabilities
Recommendation 3: Adopt a national disability strategy and plan of action
Recommendation 4: Involve people with disabilities
Recommendation 5: Improve human resource capacity
Recommendation 6: Provide adequate funding and improve affordability
Recommendation 7: Increase public awareness and understanding of disability
Recommendation 8: Improve disability data collection
Recommendation 9: Strengthen and support research on disability
Conclusion
Translating recommendations into action
Technical appendix A
Technical appendix B
Technical appendix C
Technical appendix D
Technical appendix E
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