Certificate of Achievement
has completed the following course:
London School of Hygiene & Tropical Medicine and International Centre for Evidence in Disability
This online course explored the importance of health and well-being of people with disabilities in the context of the global development agenda: Leaving no one behind.
3 weeks, 4 hours per week
Professor Hannah Kuper
Director of the International Centre for Evidence in Disability
London School of Hygiene & Tropical Medicine
Transcript
Learning outcomes
- Describe the links between disability, health and wellbeing
- Discuss challenges to health and wellbeing amongst people with disabilities
- Develop an understanding of what disability is and its relevance to the global development agenda
- Reflect on how different types of disabilities affect people’s lives in different ways
- Identify solutions to improve health and wellbeing amongst people with disabilities
Syllabus
• The magnitude of disability and relevance of disability to the global development agenda
• Defining disability and how it can be understood and measured
• The challenges to health and wellbeing amongst people with disabilities and why people with disabilities might have poorer health
• Why people with disabilities may have difficulty in accessing health services
• Links among longer term health conditions and disability
• How to improve access to health care and rehabilitation for people with disabilities
• Community based inclusive development for improving access to health and rehabilitation for people with disabilities
Issued on 21st March 2018
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