International Public Health and Global Disability
| Autor: | Donald J. Lollar, Mary Chamie |
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| Rok vydání: | 2020 |
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medicine.medical_specialty
Economic growth education.field_of_study Human rights Poverty business.industry Public health media_common.quotation_subject education Population International health International Classification of Functioning Disability and Health Political science medicine Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities business International development health care economics and organizations media_common |
| Zdroj: | Public Health Perspectives on Disability ISBN: 9781071608876 |
| Popis: | Disability and human functioning are global public health concerns. Public health professionals and their activities, however, have often focused only on the primary prevention of disabilities through injury, birth defects, chronic conditions, and aging. While these activities are certainly appropriate targets of public health, so too are the activities of preventing secondary conditions and promoting health among this population. More than one billion people in the world live with some form of disability—an astounding number and percent of the world’s population. This chapter explores disability globally as a human rights issue and its accompanying international policies, disability as an international development issue emphasizing poverty and its relationship to disability and sustainable development goals, and finally disability as a global public health issue. The public health functions of assessment, policy development, and assurance from an international perspective are discussed, focusing on the World Health Organization’s (WHO) International Classification of Functioning, Disability and Health (ICF). Finally, the chapter describes directions that international public health can take to improve the health and well-being of people with disabilities, using the WHO Global Disability Action Plan 2014–2021. |
| Databáze: | OpenAIRE |
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