Jan 14, 2025 · Disability inclusion is critical to achieving the Sustainable Development Goals and global health priorities of universal health coverage, protection in health emergencies and healthier populations. Acting to achieve health equity for persons with disabilities is acting to achieve Health for All.

Mar 7, 2023 · Brennan, C.S., Disability Rights During the Pandemic: A Global Report on Findings of the COVID-19 Disability Rights Monitor. 2020, COVID-19 Disability Rights Monitor. Williamson, E.J., et al., Risks of COVID-19 hospital admission and death for people with learning disability: population based cohort study using the OpenSAFELY platform.

Health equity for persons with disabilities is a global health priority – 1 in 6 people worldwide has significant disability, and this number is expected to increase. Health equity for persons with disabilities is a human right priority – persons with disabilities have the right to enjoy their highest attainable standard of health.

Jan 1, 2011 · The global disability prevalence is higher than previous WHO estimates, which date from the 1970s and suggested a figure of around 10%. This global estimate for disability is on the rise due to population ageing and the rapid spread of chronic diseases, as well as improvements in the methodologies used to measure disability.

Dec 14, 2011 · This pioneering World report on disability will make a significant contribution to implementation of the Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities. At the intersection of public health, human rights and development, the report is set to become a "must have" resource for policy-makers, service providers, professionals, and advocates ...

<p>Following the Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities, attention has focused on ways to remove barriers to the participation of people with disabilities in their societies. Now a new publication, the first ever World report on disability, produced jointly by WHO and the World Bank, reviews evidence about the situation of disabled people, and offers directions for policy and ...

Achieving health equity through disability inclusion in the health sector. An estimated 1.3 billion people – or 16% of global population worldwide – experience a significant disability today. Persons with disabilities have the right to the highest attainable standard of health as those without disabilities.

Dec 3, 2024 · WHO has developed the Health equity for persons with disabilities: Guide for action (or Disability inclusion guide for action) to provide technical guidance on the process that ministries of health can lead on to integrate disability inclusion into existing health systems governance, planning, and monitoring.

disability; the Organization’s Global Disability Action Plan 2014–2021,18 endorsed by Member States in 2014, which calls for improvements in access to health services and programmes, extension of rehabilitation, assistive devices and support services, and enhanced collection of

Dec 2, 2022 · An estimated 1.3 billion people – or 16% of global population worldwide – experience a significant disability today. Persons with disabilities have the right to the highest attainable standard of health as those without disabilities.