PHA-Exchange> Disability and Economics Circle

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From: "Nance (PHM)" <nance-phm at netpratique.fr>

On the occasion of Dec 3rd, International Day of Disabled Person, we do
not even make it on the first page of the WHO website!
We are 600 million, but we do not appear in the Millenium Development Goals!
Only PHM can represent the interest of people with disability!

About The Disability and Economics circle of PHM we are organizing
our purpose will be:

- to mobilise disabled people's organisation towards participating in
the People’s Health Assembly 2, July 2005 in Equador

- to defend human rights of disabled people
- to evolve a proper approach to respect for disabled people (for
example, disability is not included in the MDG)
- to call for public investment in health and rehabilitation services as
an investment in human capital
- to develop alternative economics which start from the rights to health
for all, and notaby the least-abled: children, aged and disabled
- to work towards a total change in the notion of Disability Adjusted
Life Years (which in its ultimate conclusion would mean that only the
young white well to do working male's disease burden need to be paid for)
- to promote innovative people friendly community based rehabilitation (
that includes health care, education, job access, social and economic
rights)
- to promote health research that is inclusive of disabled people in all
aspects including planning, monitoring, and evaluation
- to mainstream disability in health policy with the premise that
disability is part of the human experience (i.e., disability occurs
across the life span) and diversity
- to advocate for inclusion of disabled people's perspectives on
bioethics and in upholding their rights to scientific development
- to urge development agencies and research forums to support research
that assesses the social, political, and economic circumstances leading
to health inequities of disabled people (For example: HIV/AIDS, Child
mortality, and Reproductive health)
- to stress the need for coherent policy framework for early
identification of children with disabilities with an emphasis on
internally displaced population, refugees, conflict situation, and
natural disasters
- to highlight the human catastrophe of war leadind towards further
social construction of disability (For example, land mines and
children's psychosocial well-being)

Nance Upham & Hasheem Mannan
(contact email address on top)