The World Health Organization (WHO) disability and rehabilitation newsletter is produced three times a year and distributed via e-mail. Subscription/unsubscription requests should be sent to WHO’s Disability and Rehabilitation Team (DAR) at the following e-mail address: pedersenr@who.int
IN THIS ISSUE
Features
- International Day of Persons with Disabilities
- Meeting on mobility devices
- Update on Guidelines on CBR
- Update on the World report on disability and rehabilitation
- Lancet special issue on disability
- Guidance on sexual and reproductive health for people with disabilities
- Violence against people with disabilities
- Update: disability and emergencies
- Upcoming events
The World Health Organization (WHO) disability and rehabilitation newsletter is produced three times a year and distributed via e-mail. Subscription/unsubscription requests should be sent to WHO’s Disability and Rehabilitation Team (DAR) at the following e-mail address: pedersenr@who.int
IN THIS ISSUE
Features
- Task Force on Disability update
- World report: make it personal!
- CRPD update
- WHO Global Strategy on Leprosy
- 50 years of collaboration: WFOT and WHO
- Occupational Therapy: the difference between life and living
- Rehab in Review
- Team news
- Upcoming events
The World Health Organization (WHO) disability and rehabilitation newsletter is produced three times a year and distributed via e-mail. Subscription/unsubscription requests should be sent to WHO’s Disability and Rehabilitation Team (DAR) at the following e-mail address: pedersenr@who.int
IN THIS ISSUE
Features
- World Report update
- Convention update
- Disability into the mainstream
- Making a difference: feedback from the field
- CBR Congress
- CBR Guidelines
- ISCoS and WHO
- International Diploma
- Upcoming events
18 March 2009 - Events such as the financial crisis and climate change are markers of massive failure in the international systems that govern the way nations and their populations interact. The world desperately needs a corrective strategy. A world that is greatly out of balance in matters of health is neither stable nor secure, said WHO Director-General Dr Margaret Chan today.
The World Health Organization (WHO) disability and rehabilitation newsletter is produced three times a year and distributed via e-mail. Subscription/unsubscription requests should be sent to WHO's Disability and Rehabilitation Team (DAR) at the following e-mail address: pedersenr@who.int
IN THIS ISSUE
Features
- World Report update
- Convention update
- Taskforce on Disability update
- Wheelchair Guidelines
- CBR Congress
- Internship with DAR


