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Promoting Health of Persons With Intellectual Disabilities Using the UN Convention on the Rights of Persons With Disabilities: Early Implementation Assessment in S pain and H ungary
Author(s) -
BrehmerRinderer Barbara,
Zigrovic Lucija,
Naue Ursula,
Weber Germain
Publication year - 2013
Publication title -
journal of policy and practice in intellectual disabilities
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.592
H-Index - 30
eISSN - 1741-1130
pISSN - 1741-1122
DOI - 10.1111/jppi.12018
Subject(s) - convention on the rights of persons with disabilities , status quo , competence (human resources) , human rights , medical model of disability , public relations , intellectual disability , political science , population , convention , business , medicine , nursing , psychology , psychiatry , law , social psychology , environmental health
The article explores the initial achievements in the process of implementation of the C onvention on R ights of P ersons with D isabilities ( CRPD ) with a special focus on health of persons with intellectual disabilities ( ID ) in S pain and H ungary, the first countries to submit and receive a review for their report in the E uropean U nion. The CRPD is a major human rights instrument of the U nited N ations that was adopted in 2006 with the goal of ensuring protection of rights of persons with disabilities by holding governments accountable for the services they provide to this population. It was found that the reports designed to represent official state comments on the situation of human rights of persons with disabilities often do not follow the reporting requirements of the C onvention in terms of required data. Moreover, they do not use a unified understanding of disability promoted by the C onvention and make no mention of many important health‐related issues. Access to health is generally understood in a purely physical sense of availability and accessibility of services, while no attention is given to specific expectations and needs of persons with disabilities or to the competence of health staff to work with vulnerable groups. In order to be able to implement the C onvention, governments need to carefully assess their country's status quo with regard to disability policies and politics, and at the same time need to develop action plans to implement the CRPD .