Q: What is being done to improve the daily lives of people with disabilities?
A: About six hundred million people live with disabilities of various types due to chronic diseases, injuries, violence, infectious diseases, malnutrition, and other causes closely related to poverty. This number is increasing. Of this total, 80% of people with disabilities live in low-income countries; most are poor and have limited or no access to basic services, including rehabilitation facilities.
The Fifty-eighth World Health Assembly has adopted a resolution aimed at improving the daily lives of people with disabilities. It calls on WHO and its Member States to work towards ensuring equal opportunities and promoting the rights and dignity of people with disabilities, especially those who are poor. Countries are requested to strengthen national policies and programmes on disability, including community-based rehabilitation services. WHO is requested to support these efforts, and to collect more reliable data on all relevant aspects of disability, including the cost-effectiveness of interventions.
Specifically, the resolution calls upon the following:
A: About six hundred million people live with disabilities of various types due to chronic diseases, injuries, violence, infectious diseases, malnutrition, and other causes closely related to poverty. This number is increasing. Of this total, 80% of people with disabilities live in low-income countries; most are poor and have limited or no access to basic services, including rehabilitation facilities.
The Fifty-eighth World Health Assembly has adopted a resolution aimed at improving the daily lives of people with disabilities. It calls on WHO and its Member States to work towards ensuring equal opportunities and promoting the rights and dignity of people with disabilities, especially those who are poor. Countries are requested to strengthen national policies and programmes on disability, including community-based rehabilitation services. WHO is requested to support these efforts, and to collect more reliable data on all relevant aspects of disability, including the cost-effectiveness of interventions.
Specifically, the resolution calls upon the following:
- Promoting early intervention and identification of disability, especially for children
- Supporting the integration of community-based rehabilitation services into the health system
- Facilitating development and access to appropriate assistive devices, including wheel chairs, hearing aids, orthoses, prostheses, etc. which help to ensure the inclusion and participation of people with disabilities in their societies
- Strengthening collaborative work on disability across the United Nations system and with Member States, academia, private sector and nongovernmental organizations, including disabled people's organizations
- Production and dissemination of a World report on disability and rehabilitation based on the best available scientific evidence.
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