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Introduction to health

Before you begin viewing the material in this module, we strongly suggest that you take a few moments to reflect on your own thoughts about the role of CBR in health.

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    Please take a few minutes now to write down some of your own thoughts and feelings about CBR and health. Select Save when you are finished. If you would like to share your thoughts with others in the CBR community, select Share and save.

    1. What do you think is the proper role of CBR in health?

    2. What expectations do you have regarding how much CBR can accomplish in providing health and rehabilitation services to people with disabilities?

    3. What expectations do you think other people have regarding how much CBR can accomplish in providing health and rehabilitation services? Are these expectations reasonable? (And if not, what can your organization do to manage people’s unreasonable expectations?)

    Evidence shows that people with disabilities often experience poorer levels of health than the general population. They also face a number of different challenges to the enjoyment of their right to health.

    The right to health is not only about access to health services; it is also about access to the underlying determinants of health, such as safe drinking water, adequate sanitation and housing.

    The right to health also brings freedoms and entitlements.

    Freedoms include the rights to be free from:

    • non-consensual medical treatments (e.g. experiments and research)
    • torture and other cruel, inhuman or degrading treatment

    Entitlements include the rights to:

    • a system of health protection
    • prevention, treatment and control of diseases
    • access to essential medicines
    • participation in health-related decision-making

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