Disability - World Health Organization (WHO)
2024年12月3日 · Disability is part of being human. An estimated 1.3 billion people – about 16% of the global population – currently experience significant disability. This number is increasing due in part to population ageing and an increase in the prevalence of noncommunicable diseases.
Disability - World Health Organization (WHO)
2023年3月7日 · Brennan, C.S., Disability Rights During the Pandemic: A Global Report on Findings of the COVID-19 Disability Rights Monitor. 2020, COVID-19 Disability Rights Monitor. Williamson, E.J., et al., Risks of COVID-19 hospital admission and death for people with learning disability: population based cohort study using the OpenSAFELY platform.
10 Facts on disability - World Health Organization (WHO)
2023年3月7日 · Health equity for persons with disabilities is a global health priority – 1 in 6 people worldwide has significant disability, and this number is expected to increase. Health equity for persons with disabilities is a human right priority – persons with disabilities have the right to enjoy their highest attainable standard of health.
Disability - World Health Organization (WHO)
2019年9月9日 · Between 110 million (2.2% of the world’s population) and 190 million (3.8%) people 15 years and older have significant difficulties in functioning. In Member States of the WHO European Region, 6 to 10 out of every 100 people live with a disability. In total, an estimated 135 million people in Europe live with a disability.
World report on disability - World Health Organization (WHO)
2011年12月14日 · The first ever World report on disability, produced jointly by WHO and the World Bank, suggests that more than a billion people in the world today experience disability. People with disabilities have generally poorer health, lower education achievements, fewer economic opportunities and higher rates of poverty than people without disabilities.
Disability is the experience of the day-to-day impact on people’s lives of health conditions and impairments in the contexts in which they live. Consequently, good health and well-being is of major concern to people with disability and prevention and treatment are key factors to mitigate the impact of disabilities. People with disabilities
Global report on health equity for persons with disabilities
2022年12月2日 · An estimated 1.3 billion people – or 16% of global population worldwide – experience a significant disability today. Persons with disabilities have the right to the highest attainable standard of health as those without disabilities.
World Report on Disability 2011 - World Health Organization (WHO)
2011年1月1日 · This global estimate for disability is on the rise due to population ageing and the rapid spread of chronic diseases, as well as improvements in the methodologies used to measure disability. The first ever WHO/World Bank World report on disability reviews evidence about the situation of people with disabilities around the world.
Disability EURO - World Health Organization (WHO)
2024年12月3日 · However, not all countries provide adequate, quality services for people with disability. In the Region, only 50% of people with disability can afford health care, including rehabilitation services, while only 10% have access to assistive devices, with wide variations in these percentages between Member States.
inclusion of people with disability in the global development agenda. 8. This Policy on Disability also expands other organizational policies that seek to make WHO’s workforce inclusive of people with disability, such as the Policy on Employment of People with Disabilities (2010), through which WHO commits to providing equality of access to