World Health Organization : Year 2001 ; Assessment Document, A78624: World Health Organization Disability and Rehabilitation Team Rethinking Care from the Perspective of Disabled People Conference Report and Recommendations

By Nadia Ait-Khaled

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Title:	World Health Organization : Year 2001 ; Assessment Document, A78624: World Health Organization Disability and Rehabilitation Team Rethinking Care from the Perspective of Disabled People Conference Report and Recommendations
Author:	Nadia Ait-Khaled
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Language:	English
Subject:	Health., Public health, Wellness programs
Collections:	Medical Library Collection, World Health Collection
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Publisher:	World Health Organization


Citation APA MLA Chicago Ait Khaled, Ms., Per Aage Bjorke, And Michael Boland, Dr, B. N. (n.d.). World Health Organization : Year 2001 ; Assessment Document, A78624. Retrieved from https://self.gutenberg.org/

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Medical Reference Publication

Excerpt
1. Introduction “Everything is structured in such a way that people with disability are entirely left out.” (A student with disabilities: Ghana) “Over the fifteen years of my disability, I have learned what it is like to be isolated, segregated, and discriminated against. I know this not only because of my own experience, but because I have joined an organization of others who have the same condition, and who have the same experiences.” (A psychiatric system survivor: United States of America) “Disabled people have been the most destitute of Africans. Government planners have tended to emphasize the majority and thus they have ignored the needs of disabled people and their families. African society already accorded women a lower status than men... disabled women face discrimination because they are women and because they are disabled.” (A disabled woman: Zambia) “We (disabled people) have to gain control of our own lives, our own physical rehabilitation, our own personal assistance.” (A disabled activist: Belgium) “Today’s challenge is the participation of disabled people as members of civil society; as leading characters in the diagnosis, elaboration and evaluation of public policies... so as to reach a better approach.” (A disabled lawyer: Chile) “Society has to acknowledge that, until there is a coordination of effort between a range of medical, allied health, and developmental services, families (with disabled children) will go on facing stress and pain.” (A professional working with families with disabled children: India) “All treatment should have the objective to improve human life, not just the body.” (A representative of an international nongovernmental organization for people with disabilities)

Table of Contents
Rethinking Care Contents Page Acknowledgements 3 Executive summary 4 1. Introduction 6 2. Background: the growing demand for change 8 3. Conference aims and objectives 9 4. Language, meaning and rethinking ‘care’ 10 5. Organization of the conference 12 6. Current situation (Monday 23 April) 13 7. Needs and challenges (Tuesday 24 April) 20 8. Recommendations 23 Further reading 29 Appendix 1: UN Standard Rules 1–4 on the Equalization of Opportunities for Persons with 31 Disabilities Appendix 2: List of participants 36 Appendix 3: Conference programme 42 Appendix 4: Presentations 47