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    GHO / Indicator Metadata Registry List. Disability-adjusted life years (DALYs) Short name: DALYs. Data type: Statistic. Topic: Mortality and burden of disease. Rationale: Mortality does not give a complete picture of the burden of disease borne by individuals in different populations.

  4. www.who.int › world-report-on-disabilityWorld Report on Disability - World Health Organization (WHO)

    Jan 1, 2011 · World Report on Disability 2011. About 15% of the world's population lives with some form of disability, of whom 2-4% experience significant difficulties in functioning. The global disability prevalence is higher than previous WHO estimates, which date from the 1970s and suggested a figure of around 10%. This global estimate for disability is ...

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    The World Health Organization and the World Bank have written this report. The World Health Organization makes sure all people are as healthy as possible. The World Bank gives money to help poor countries make their services better. In 2006, world governments signed a declaration or list of promises about the rights of people with disabilities.

  7. cdn.who.int › media › docsWORLD REPORT ON DISABILITY - World Health Organization

    • Factsheet: main messages and recommendations
    • The main messages of the report are as follows:
    • The cross cutting recommendations of the report, based on the main findings, are as follows:

    The World report on disability is the first of its kind, providing global guidance on implementing the United Nations Convention on the Rights of persons with Disabilities (CRPD) and giving an extensive picture of the situation of people with disabilities, their needs and unmet needs, and the barriers they face to participating fully in their socie...

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    There has been a paradigm shift in approaches to disability. In recent decades the move has been away from a medical understanding towards a social understanding. Disability arises from the interaction between people with a health condition and their environment. The CRPD reflects this emphasis on removing environmental barriers which prevent inc...

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    1: Enable access to all mainstream systems and services. People with disabilities have ordinary needs, which can and should be met through mainstream programmes and services. Mainstreaming is the process by which governments and other stakeholders address the barriers that exclude persons with disabilities from participating equally in any service ...

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    Goals: health targets. DISABILITY . Optimizing the health and well-being of people with disabilities is essential to achieving the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs). Because the experience of disability is . universal across the lifespan and impacts all areas of human life, disability is relevant to the implementation of all SDGs.

  9. apps.who.int › iris › restWorld Report on Disability - World Health Organization

    Dec 9, 2009 · Of these, the World Health Survey estimates that 110 million people (2.2%) have very significant dificulties in func-tioning, while the Global Burden of Disease estimates that 190 million (3.8%) have “severe disability” – the equivalent of disability inferred for conditions such as quadriplegia, severe depression, or blindness.