<div class="gmail_quote">From: <b class="gmail_sendername">Ruggiero, Mrs. Ana Lucia (WDC)</b> <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:ruglucia@paho.org">ruglucia@paho.org</a>></span><br>crossposted from: <a href="mailto:EQUIDAD@listserv.paho.org">EQUIDAD@listserv.paho.org</a><br>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left:.5in"><span><font size="4" color="maroon" face="Arial"><span style="font-size:14.0pt;font-family:Arial;color:maroon">World report on disability <br>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left:.5in"><b><font size="2" face="Arial"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial;font-weight:bold">WHO World Health
Organization and the World Bank Group - June 2011<br>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left:.5in"><span><i><font size="1" face="Arial"><span style="font-size:9.0pt;font-family:Arial;font-style:italic">MORE THAN ONE BILLION PEOPLE FACE SOME FORM OF DISABILITY, LANDMARK UN
REPORT FINDS <br>
the report that calls for the elimination of barriers that often force the
people with disabilities to “the margins of society.”  <br>
</span></font></i></span><span><i><font size="1" face="Arial"><span style="font-size:8.0pt;font-family:Arial;font-style:italic">UN press release New
York, Jun  9 2011 12:05PM</span></font></i></span></p>

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<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left:.5in"><span><font size="2" face="Arial"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial">Website: <a href="http://bit.ly/lA7Rab" target="_blank"><font color="black"><span style="color:windowtext">http://bit.ly/lA7Rab</span></font></a><br>

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<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left:.5in;text-autospace:none"><span><font size="2" face="Arial"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial">Available online PDF [349p.] at: <a href="http://bit.ly/jcRO7f" target="_blank"><font color="black"><span style="color:windowtext">http://bit.ly/jcRO7f</span></font></a>
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“…….</span></font></span><font size="2" face="Arial"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial">More than one billion people in the world live with some
form of disability, of whom nearly 200 million experience considerable
difficulties in functioning. In the years ahead, disability will be an even
greater concern because its prevalence is on the rise. This is due to ageing
populations and the higher risk of disability in older people as well as the
global increase in chronic health conditions such as diabetes, cardiovascular
disease, cancer and mental health disorders.</span></font></p>

<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left:.5in;text-autospace:none"><font size="2" face="Arial"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial"> </span></font></p>

<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left:.5in;text-autospace:none"><font size="2" face="Arial"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial">Across the world,
people with disabilities have poorer health outcomes, lower education achievements,
less economic participation and higher rates of poverty than people without disabilities.
This is partly because people with disabilities experience barriers in
accessing services that many of us have long taken for granted, including
health, education, employment, and transport as well as information. These
difficulties are exacerbated in less advantaged communities.</span></font></p>

<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left:.5in;text-autospace:none"><font size="2" face="Arial"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial"> </span></font></p>

<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left:.5in;text-autospace:none"><font size="2" face="Arial"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial">To achieve the
long-lasting, vastly better development prospects that lie at the heart of the
2015 Millennium Development Goals and beyond, we must empower people living
with disabilities and remove the barriers which prevent them participating in
their communities; getting a quality education, finding decent work, and having
their voices heard.</span></font></p>

<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left:.5in;text-autospace:none"><font size="2" face="Arial"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial"> </span></font></p>

<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left:.5in;text-autospace:none"><font size="2" face="Arial"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial">As a result, the
World Health Organization and the World Bank Group have jointly produced  this <i><span style="font-style:italic">World Report on Disability </span></i>to provide the
evidence for innovative policies and programmes that can improve the lives of
people with disabilities, and facilitate implementation of the United Nations
Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities, which came into force in
May 2008. This landmark international treaty reinforced our understanding of
disability as a human rights</span></font></p>

<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left:.5in;text-autospace:none"><font size="2" face="Arial"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial">and development
priority.</span></font></p>

<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left:.5in;text-autospace:none"><font size="2" face="Arial"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial"> </span></font></p>

<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left:.5in;text-autospace:none"><font size="2" face="Arial"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial">The <i><span style="font-style:italic">World Report on Disability </span></i>suggests steps
for all stakeholders – including governments, civil society organizations and
disabled people’s organizations – to create enabling environments, develop
rehabilitation and support services, ensure adequate social protection, create
inclusive policies and programmes, and enforce new and existing standards and
legislation, to the benefit of people with disabilities and the wider
community. People with disabilities should be central to</span></font></p>

<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left:.5in;text-autospace:none"><font size="2" face="Arial"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial">these endeavors.<br>
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</span></font></p>

<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left:.5in;text-autospace:none"><font size="2" face="Arial"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial">Our driving vision is
of an inclusive world in which we are all able to live a life of health,
comfort, and dignity. We invite you to use the evidence in this report to help
this vision become a reality…..” </span></font><font size="1" face="Arial"><span style="font-size:8.0pt;font-family:Arial">Dr Margaret Chan, Director-General, World
Health Organization - Mr Robert B Zoellick, President, World Bank Group<br>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left:.5in"><span><font size="2" face="Arial"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial"> </span></font></span></p>

<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left:.5in;text-autospace:none"><b><font size="1" face="Arial"><span style="font-size:9.0pt;font-family:Arial;font-weight:bold">Content<br>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left:.5in;text-autospace:none"><b><font size="1" face="Arial"><span style="font-size:9.0pt;font-family:Arial;font-weight:bold">Foreword Professor Stephen W Hawking <br>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left:.5in;text-autospace:none"><b><font size="1" face="Arial"><span style="font-size:9.0pt;font-family:Arial;font-weight:bold">Introduction </span></font></b></p>

<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left:.5in;text-autospace:none"><b><font size="1" face="Arial"><span style="font-size:9.0pt;font-family:Arial;font-weight:bold">Understanding disability </span></font></b></p>

<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left:.5in;text-autospace:none"><b><font size="1" face="Arial"><span style="font-size:9.0pt;font-family:Arial;font-weight:bold">What is disability? </span></font></b></p>

<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left:.5in;text-autospace:none"><b><font size="1" face="Arial"><span style="font-size:9.0pt;font-family:Arial;font-weight:bold">Disability and human rights </span></font></b></p>

<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left:.5in;text-autospace:none"><b><font size="1" face="Arial"><span style="font-size:9.0pt;font-family:Arial;font-weight:bold">Disability and development </span></font></b></p>

<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left:.5in;text-autospace:none"><b><font size="1" face="Arial"><span style="font-size:9.0pt;font-family:Arial;font-weight:bold">Disability – a global picture </span></font></b></p>

<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left:.5in;text-autospace:none"><b><font size="1" face="Arial"><span style="font-size:9.0pt;font-family:Arial;font-weight:bold"><br>
Measuring disability </span></font></b></p>

<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left:.5in;text-autospace:none"><font size="1" face="Arial"><span style="font-size:9.0pt;font-family:Arial">Prevalence of
disability – difficulties in functioning </span></font></p>

<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left:.5in;text-autospace:none"><font size="1" face="Arial"><span style="font-size:9.0pt;font-family:Arial">Health conditions </span></font></p>

<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left:.5in;text-autospace:none"><font size="1" face="Arial"><span style="font-size:9.0pt;font-family:Arial">Demographics </span></font></p>

<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left:.5in;text-autospace:none"><font size="1" face="Arial"><span style="font-size:9.0pt;font-family:Arial">The environment </span></font></p>

<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left:.5in;text-autospace:none"><font size="1" face="Arial"><span style="font-size:9.0pt;font-family:Arial">Disability and
poverty </span></font></p>

<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left:.5in;text-autospace:none"><font size="1" face="Arial"><span style="font-size:9.0pt;font-family:Arial">Needs for services
and assistance </span></font></p>

<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left:.5in;text-autospace:none"><font size="1" face="Arial"><span style="font-size:9.0pt;font-family:Arial">Costs of disability </span></font></p>

<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left:.5in;text-autospace:none"><font size="1" face="Arial"><span style="font-size:9.0pt;font-family:Arial"> </span></font></p>

<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left:.5in;text-autospace:none"><b><font size="1" face="Arial"><span style="font-size:9.0pt;font-family:Arial;font-weight:bold">General health care </span></font></b></p>

<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left:.5in;text-autospace:none"><b><font size="1" face="Arial"><span style="font-size:9.0pt;font-family:Arial;font-weight:bold">Understanding the health of people with disabilities </span></font></b></p>


<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left:.5in;text-autospace:none"><b><font size="1" face="Arial"><span style="font-size:9.0pt;font-family:Arial;font-weight:bold">Addressing barriers to health care </span></font></b></p>

<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left:.5in;text-autospace:none"><b><font size="1" face="Arial"><span style="font-size:9.0pt;font-family:Arial;font-weight:bold"><br>
Rehabilitation </span></font></b></p>

<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left:.5in;text-autospace:none"><b><font size="1" face="Arial"><span style="font-size:9.0pt;font-family:Arial;font-weight:bold">Understanding rehabilitation </span></font></b></p>

<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left:.5in;text-autospace:none"><b><font size="1" face="Arial"><span style="font-size:9.0pt;font-family:Arial;font-weight:bold">Addressing barriers to rehabilitation </span></font></b></p>


<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left:.5in;text-autospace:none"><b><font size="1" face="Arial"><span style="font-size:9.0pt;font-family:Arial;font-weight:bold">Reforming policies, laws, and delivery systems </span></font></b></p>


<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left:.5in;text-autospace:none"><b><font size="1" face="Arial"><span style="font-size:9.0pt;font-family:Arial;font-weight:bold">Developing funding mechanisms for rehabilitation 106</span></font></b></p>


<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left:.5in;text-autospace:none"><b><font size="1" face="Arial"><span style="font-size:9.0pt;font-family:Arial;font-weight:bold">Increasing human resources for rehabilitation 108</span></font></b></p>


<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left:.5in;text-autospace:none"><b><font size="1" face="Arial"><span style="font-size:9.0pt;font-family:Arial;font-weight:bold"> </span></font></b></p>

<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left:.5in;text-autospace:none"><b><font size="1" face="Arial"><span style="font-size:9.0pt;font-family:Arial;font-weight:bold">Expanding and decentralizing service delivery </span></font></b></p>


<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left:.5in;text-autospace:none"><b><font size="1" face="Arial"><span style="font-size:9.0pt;font-family:Arial;font-weight:bold">Increasing the use and affordability of technology </span></font></b></p>


<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left:.5in;text-autospace:none"><font size="1" face="Arial"><span style="font-size:9.0pt;font-family:Arial">Assistive devices </span></font></p>

<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left:.5in;text-autospace:none"><font size="1" face="Arial"><span style="font-size:9.0pt;font-family:Arial">Telerehabilitation <br>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left:.5in;text-autospace:none"><b><font size="1" face="Arial"><span style="font-size:9.0pt;font-family:Arial;font-weight:bold">Expanding research and evidence-based practice </span></font></b></p>


<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left:.5in;text-autospace:none"><font size="1" face="Arial"><span style="font-size:9.0pt;font-family:Arial">Information and good
practice guidelines </span></font></p>

<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left:.5in;text-autospace:none"><font size="1" face="Arial"><span style="font-size:9.0pt;font-family:Arial">Research, data, and
information </span></font></p>

<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left:.5in;text-autospace:none"><font size="1" face="Arial"><span style="font-size:9.0pt;font-family:Arial"> </span></font></p>

<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left:.5in;text-autospace:none"><font size="1" face="Arial"><span style="font-size:9.0pt;font-family:Arial">Policies and
regulatory mechanisms </span></font></p>

<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left:.5in;text-autospace:none"><font size="1" face="Arial"><span style="font-size:9.0pt;font-family:Arial">Financing </span></font></p>

<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left:.5in;text-autospace:none"><font size="1" face="Arial"><span style="font-size:9.0pt;font-family:Arial">Human resources </span></font></p>

<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left:.5in;text-autospace:none"><font size="1" face="Arial"><span style="font-size:9.0pt;font-family:Arial">Service delivery </span></font></p>

<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left:.5in;text-autospace:none"><font size="1" face="Arial"><span style="font-size:9.0pt;font-family:Arial">Technology </span></font></p>

<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left:.5in;text-autospace:none"><font size="1" face="Arial"><span style="font-size:9.0pt;font-family:Arial">Research and
evidence-based practice<br>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left:.5in;text-autospace:none"><b><font size="1" face="Arial"><span style="font-size:9.0pt;font-family:Arial;font-weight:bold">Assistance and support </span></font></b></p>

<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left:.5in;text-autospace:none"><b><font size="1" face="Arial"><span style="font-size:9.0pt;font-family:Arial;font-weight:bold">Understanding assistance and support </span></font></b></p>


<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left:.5in;text-autospace:none"><b><font size="1" face="Arial"><span style="font-size:9.0pt;font-family:Arial;font-weight:bold">Barriers to assistance and support </span></font></b></p>

<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left:.5in;text-autospace:none"><b><font size="1" face="Arial"><span style="font-size:9.0pt;font-family:Arial;font-weight:bold">Addressing the barriers to assistance and support </span></font></b></p>


<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left:.5in;text-autospace:none"><font size="1" face="Arial"><span style="font-size:9.0pt;font-family:Arial"> </span></font></p>

<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left:.5in;text-autospace:none"><b><font size="1" face="Arial"><span style="font-size:9.0pt;font-family:Arial;font-weight:bold">Enabling environments </span></font></b></p>

<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left:.5in;text-autospace:none"><b><font size="1" face="Arial"><span style="font-size:9.0pt;font-family:Arial;font-weight:bold">Understanding access to physical and information environments </span></font></b></p>


<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left:.5in;text-autospace:none"><b><font size="1" face="Arial"><span style="font-size:9.0pt;font-family:Arial;font-weight:bold">Addressing the barriers in buildings and roads </span></font></b></p>


<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left:.5in;text-autospace:none"><b><font size="1" face="Arial"><span style="font-size:9.0pt;font-family:Arial;font-weight:bold"> </span></font></b></p>

<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left:.5in;text-autospace:none"><b><font size="1" face="Arial"><span style="font-size:9.0pt;font-family:Arial;font-weight:bold">Addressing the barriers in public transportation </span></font></b></p>


<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left:.5in;text-autospace:none"><b><font size="1" face="Arial"><span style="font-size:9.0pt;font-family:Arial;font-weight:bold">Barriers to information and communication </span></font></b></p>


<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left:.5in;text-autospace:none"><b><font size="1" face="Arial"><span style="font-size:9.0pt;font-family:Arial;font-weight:bold">Addressing the barriers to information and technology </span></font></b></p>


<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left:.5in;text-autospace:none"><b><font size="1" face="Arial"><span style="font-size:9.0pt;font-family:Arial;font-weight:bold">Education </span></font></b></p>

<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left:.5in;text-autospace:none"><b><font size="1" face="Arial"><span style="font-size:9.0pt;font-family:Arial;font-weight:bold">Educational participation and children with disability </span></font></b></p>


<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left:.5in;text-autospace:none"><b><font size="1" face="Arial"><span style="font-size:9.0pt;font-family:Arial;font-weight:bold">Understanding education and disability </span></font></b></p>


<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left:.5in;text-autospace:none"><b><font size="1" face="Arial"><span style="font-size:9.0pt;font-family:Arial;font-weight:bold">Barriers to education for children with disabilities </span></font></b></p>


<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left:.5in;text-autospace:none"><b><font size="1" face="Arial"><span style="font-size:9.0pt;font-family:Arial;font-weight:bold">Addressing barriers to education </span></font></b></p>

<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left:.5in;text-autospace:none"><b><font size="1" face="Arial"><span style="font-size:9.0pt;font-family:Arial;font-weight:bold"> </span></font></b></p>

<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left:.5in;text-autospace:none"><b><font size="1" face="Arial"><span style="font-size:9.0pt;font-family:Arial;font-weight:bold">Work and employment </span></font></b></p>

<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left:.5in;text-autospace:none"><b><font size="1" face="Arial"><span style="font-size:9.0pt;font-family:Arial;font-weight:bold">Understanding labour markets </span></font></b></p>

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Recommendations </span></font></b></p>

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Enable access to all mainstream policies, systems and services </span></font></p>

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Invest in specific programmes and services for people with disabilities </span></font></p>

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Adopt a national disability strategy and plan of action </span></font></p>

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Involve people with disabilities </span></font></p>

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Improve human resource capacity </span></font></p>

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Provide adequate funding and improve affordability </span></font></p>

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Increase public awareness and understanding of disability </span></font></p>

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Improve disability data collection </span></font></p>

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Strengthen and support research on disability </span></font></p>

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recommendations into action </span></font></p>

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Technical appendix A </span></font></b></p>

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