Take home message. 2018 Logo. ⢠Empowering persons with disabilities and ensuring inclusiveness and equity. ⢠Nothing about them without them ...
International Day of Persons with Disabilities By
Professor Eman Ahmed Zaky, MD, PhD, DPP Head of Child Psychiatry Unit Department of Pediatrics, ASUFM
Disabilies • Disability is a subject that we might hear or read about but most of us do not think that it might happen to them
• Day after day, people who are suffering from different types of disabilities are increasing in number across the globe because of continuous improvement of medical services and increased numbers of aged individuals
• Statistically, 33% of 20 year old workers will become disabled before reaching their retirement age
Statistics • Over a billion; 15% of the world’s population have some form of disability • In USA, there are about 3.3 million wheelchair users • One in four adults in USA has a disability that impacts major life activities • About 93 – 95% of disabled all over the world do not use wheelchairs , though wheelchair is the universal disability symbol
Definition • The word “disabled” means having physical or mental Disability because of an illness or injury , etc • Such disability has a substantial and or long term negative impact on doing daily life activities and consequently on health related quality of life • The term disability has been started to be used in the late 20th century • Continuous positive changes are there because of disability rights movements
Challenges • The stress felt when or going to be seen by the public • The stress of negative portray in media outlets • The need to be treated by health care professionals as individuals with their own specifiers and abilities and not just stereotyped as a disabled person
Types • Motor or physical • Mental (ID, LD, cognitive, developmental) • Sensory (visual, hearing, speech or language) • Emotional • Chronic physical illnesses • Dual • Multiple or complex
Why? • Stigma • Rejection • Harrassement / Bullying • Associated dysmorphism • Limitations of daily activities • Lack of social and or economic support • Increased burden of daily stressors
What can we do • An evolution and not a revolution • Rehabilitation • Social, economic, and emotional support • Political leaders’adoption of their rights to increase the available resources • Public awareness about their needs
Take home message 2018 Logo • Empowering persons with disabilities and ensuring inclusiveness and equity • Nothing about them without them
