The BJD supports the draft WHO gloval disability action plan 2014-2021.
The draft action plan has the following three objectives:
- to remove barriers and improve access to health services and programmes;
- to strengthen and extend rehabilitation, habilitation, assistive technology, assistance and support services, and community-based rehabilitation;
- to enhance collection of relevant and internationally comparable data on disability and support research on disability and related services.
Across the world, more often than their non-disabled peers, people with disabilities do not receive the health care they need and have poorer health. People with disabilities are more than twice as likely to find healthcare providers’ skills and facilities inadequate; nearly three times more likely to be denied health care; and four times more likely to be treated badly. The WHO global disability action plan 2014-2021 seeks to address these disparities.
The plan will be discussed at the 67th World Health Assembly in May 2014.