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Bookmark or Share- Disability - World Health Organization (WHO)Persons with disabilities die earlier, have poorer health, and experience more limitations in everyday functioning than the rest of the population due to health inequities. These health inequities arise from unfair conditions that affect persons with disabilities disproportionally, including stigma, discrimination, poverty, exclusion from ...
- 10 Facts on disability - World Health Organization (WHO)Yet, persons with disabilities often experience violence, prejudice, and face barriers to access healthcare. Health equity for persons with disabilities is a development priority – more persons with disabilities live in low- and middle-income countries. Disability and poverty mutually reinforce each other, and contribute to health inequities.
- Disability - World Health Organization (WHO)Persons with disabilities have twice the risk of developing conditions such as depression, asthma, diabetes, stroke, obesity or poor oral health. Persons with disabilities face many health inequities. Persons with disabilities find inaccessible and unaffordable transportation 15 times more difficult than for those without disabilities.
- Disability EURO - World Health Organization (WHO)‘The WHO European Framework for action to achieve the highest attainable standard of health for persons with disabilities 2022–2030’ will guide countries to fully include and consider people with disability in all health care planning, delivery, and leadership across the Region, leading to a disability-inclusive health sector and the ...
- Health equity for persons with disabilities: guide for actionThe Global Report called upon Member States to take actions to make health sector more inclusive for persons with disabilities through the primary health care approach. This will be essential for countries to make health coverage truly universal and to progress towards other health-related targets in the sustainable development goals.
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