- Disability - World Health Organization (WHO)
Disability results from the interaction between individuals with a health condition, such as cerebral palsy, Down syndrome and depression, with personal and environmental factors including negative attitudes, inaccessible transportation and public buildings, and limited social support
- Disability - World Health Organization (WHO)
WHO fact sheet on disability and health provides key facts and information on unmet needs for health care, secondary conditions, how lives of disabled people affected, barriers to health care and WHO response
- Disability EURO - World Health Organization (WHO)
Disability refers to the interaction between individuals with a health condition, such as cerebral palsy, cognitive impairment or depression, and personal and environmental factors, such as negative attitudes and stigma, inaccessible transportation and public buildings, or reduced access to social supports People with disability are a very diverse population encompassing a wide variety of
- World report on disability - World Health Organization (WHO)
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
- Handicap - World Health Organization (WHO)
Plus d’un milliard de personnes, c’est-à-dire environ 15% de la population mondiale, présentent une forme ou une autre de handicap
- Partners unite to launch WHO Disability Health Equity
WHO has launched the WHO Disability Health Equity Initiative, a landmark global initiative to advance health equity for over 1 3 billion people with disabilities Unveiled on 10 June 2025, at the United Nations Headquarters in New York during the 18th session of the Conference of States Parties to the Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities, the initiative marks a bold step toward
- WHO policy on disability
The WHO Policy on Disability requires WHO to: Integrate disability into the design, implementation, monitoring, and evaluation of all programmes, while continuing disability-specific or targeted initiatives for people with disability More information about WHO’s disability programme Consult with people with disability in decisions relating to its programmes and operations, including
- World Report on Disability - World Health Organization (WHO)
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
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