Journal article
A global perspective on disability: a review of efforts to increase access and advance social integration for disabled persons
Disability and rehabilitation, Vol.12(3), pp.123-127
1990
Handle:
https://hdl.handle.net/2376/109215
PMID: 2151390
Abstract
Disability has emerged as a major public health problem worldwide, common to nations presenting disparate levels of socioeconomic development. Failure to integrate social welfare programmes within national development planning exacerbates difficulties arising from limited resources, with a disproportionate impact on disabled persons and other vulnerable groups. Such policy failure allows flagrant inequalities and social injustice to persist. Strategies are emerging, however, that are useful for solving common international problems. Community-based disability prevention and rehabilitation is one emerging solution that has attracted considerable attention worldwide, including in the United States. Following a review of global estimates of disability, which reveal the magnitude of the problem and provide background information for this report, I will summarize major international initiatives designed to prevent disability and ensure comprehensive rehabilitation for disabled persons. I will also analyse the relationships between health, socioeconomic development, and disability. Finally, I will describe community-based rehabilitation, an innovative approach evolving from the World Health Organization's Global Strategy for Health for All by the Year 2000, an approach with potential to eliminate barriers to equal opportunities and social integration for disabled persons.
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- Title
- A global perspective on disability: a review of efforts to increase access and advance social integration for disabled persons
- Creators
- Gail D Chermak - Department of Speech and Hearing Sciences, Washington State University, Washington, USA
- Publication Details
- Disability and rehabilitation, Vol.12(3), pp.123-127
- Academic Unit
- Speech and Hearing Sciences, Department of
- Publisher
- Informa UK Ltd
- Identifiers
- 99900547138701842
- Language
- English
- Resource Type
- Journal article