Disability and COVID-19: ensuring no one is left behind

The United Nations’ Sustainable Development Agenda calls for targeted attention to the needs and rights of the most vulnerable populations to ensure a life of dignity and human security for all. In this paper, we argue that persons with disabilities are in a disproportionately vulnerable situation i...

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Autores principales: Cieza, Alarcos, Kamenov, Kaloyan, Al Ghaib, Ola Abu, Aresu, Alessandra, Chatterji, Somnath, Chavez, Facundo, Clyne, Jarrod, Drew, Nathalie, Funk, Michelle, Guzman, Andrea, Guzzi, Eleonora, Khasnabis, Chapal, Mikkelsen, Bente, Minghui, Ren, Mitra, Gopal, Narahari, Priyanka, Nauk, Gisela, Priddy, Alice, Sabeh, Alaa, Reyes, Maria Soledad Cisternas, Vasquez, Javier, Widmer-Iliescu, Roxana
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Publicado: BioMed Central 2021
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC8377454/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/34416912
http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/s13690-021-00656-7
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author Cieza, Alarcos
Kamenov, Kaloyan
Al Ghaib, Ola Abu
Aresu, Alessandra
Chatterji, Somnath
Chavez, Facundo
Clyne, Jarrod
Drew, Nathalie
Funk, Michelle
Guzman, Andrea
Guzzi, Eleonora
Khasnabis, Chapal
Mikkelsen, Bente
Minghui, Ren
Mitra, Gopal
Narahari, Priyanka
Nauk, Gisela
Priddy, Alice
Sabeh, Alaa
Reyes, Maria Soledad Cisternas
Vasquez, Javier
Widmer-Iliescu, Roxana
author_facet Cieza, Alarcos
Kamenov, Kaloyan
Al Ghaib, Ola Abu
Aresu, Alessandra
Chatterji, Somnath
Chavez, Facundo
Clyne, Jarrod
Drew, Nathalie
Funk, Michelle
Guzman, Andrea
Guzzi, Eleonora
Khasnabis, Chapal
Mikkelsen, Bente
Minghui, Ren
Mitra, Gopal
Narahari, Priyanka
Nauk, Gisela
Priddy, Alice
Sabeh, Alaa
Reyes, Maria Soledad Cisternas
Vasquez, Javier
Widmer-Iliescu, Roxana
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description The United Nations’ Sustainable Development Agenda calls for targeted attention to the needs and rights of the most vulnerable populations to ensure a life of dignity and human security for all. In this paper, we argue that persons with disabilities are in a disproportionately vulnerable situation in public health emergencies. By using the example of Coronavirus disease 2019 (Covid-19), we explain why that is and call for the systematic consideration of the needs and rights of persons with disabilities during the response to the outbreak and during the recovery phase. Otherwise, equity will continue to be merely an aspiration during this COVID-19 emergency - as it will in future health emergencies. SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: The online version contains supplementary material available at 10.1186/s13690-021-00656-7.
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spelling pubmed-83774542021-08-20 Disability and COVID-19: ensuring no one is left behind Cieza, Alarcos Kamenov, Kaloyan Al Ghaib, Ola Abu Aresu, Alessandra Chatterji, Somnath Chavez, Facundo Clyne, Jarrod Drew, Nathalie Funk, Michelle Guzman, Andrea Guzzi, Eleonora Khasnabis, Chapal Mikkelsen, Bente Minghui, Ren Mitra, Gopal Narahari, Priyanka Nauk, Gisela Priddy, Alice Sabeh, Alaa Reyes, Maria Soledad Cisternas Vasquez, Javier Widmer-Iliescu, Roxana Arch Public Health Commentary The United Nations’ Sustainable Development Agenda calls for targeted attention to the needs and rights of the most vulnerable populations to ensure a life of dignity and human security for all. In this paper, we argue that persons with disabilities are in a disproportionately vulnerable situation in public health emergencies. By using the example of Coronavirus disease 2019 (Covid-19), we explain why that is and call for the systematic consideration of the needs and rights of persons with disabilities during the response to the outbreak and during the recovery phase. Otherwise, equity will continue to be merely an aspiration during this COVID-19 emergency - as it will in future health emergencies. SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: The online version contains supplementary material available at 10.1186/s13690-021-00656-7. BioMed Central 2021-08-20 /pmc/articles/PMC8377454/ /pubmed/34416912 http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/s13690-021-00656-7 Text en © The Author(s) 2021 https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/Open AccessThis article is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License, which permits use, sharing, adaptation, distribution and reproduction in any medium or format, as long as you give appropriate credit to the original author(s) and the source, provide a link to the Creative Commons licence, and indicate if changes were made. The images or other third party material in this article are included in the article's Creative Commons licence, unless indicated otherwise in a credit line to the material. If material is not included in the article's Creative Commons licence and your intended use is not permitted by statutory regulation or exceeds the permitted use, you will need to obtain permission directly from the copyright holder. To view a copy of this licence, visit http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/ (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/) . The Creative Commons Public Domain Dedication waiver (http://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/zero/1.0/ (https://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/zero/1.0/) ) applies to the data made available in this article, unless otherwise stated in a credit line to the data.
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Cieza, Alarcos
Kamenov, Kaloyan
Al Ghaib, Ola Abu
Aresu, Alessandra
Chatterji, Somnath
Chavez, Facundo
Clyne, Jarrod
Drew, Nathalie
Funk, Michelle
Guzman, Andrea
Guzzi, Eleonora
Khasnabis, Chapal
Mikkelsen, Bente
Minghui, Ren
Mitra, Gopal
Narahari, Priyanka
Nauk, Gisela
Priddy, Alice
Sabeh, Alaa
Reyes, Maria Soledad Cisternas
Vasquez, Javier
Widmer-Iliescu, Roxana
Disability and COVID-19: ensuring no one is left behind
title Disability and COVID-19: ensuring no one is left behind
title_full Disability and COVID-19: ensuring no one is left behind
title_fullStr Disability and COVID-19: ensuring no one is left behind
title_full_unstemmed Disability and COVID-19: ensuring no one is left behind
title_short Disability and COVID-19: ensuring no one is left behind
title_sort disability and covid-19: ensuring no one is left behind
topic Commentary
url https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC8377454/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/34416912
http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/s13690-021-00656-7
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