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<DIV><SPAN class=156381802-07122003><FONT color=#0000ff>Dear Thian and
Hiroshi,</FONT></SPAN></DIV>
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<DIV><SPAN class=156381802-07122003><FONT color=#0000ff> In many countries
including the US, unless mental or psychological is specified it is often
excluded. This is especially true with health insurance coverage and
services. How about a qualifier such as "persons with disabilities,
including mental and physical" as this would include mental but not limit
it to physical as it is used as an example of the types of
disabilities?</FONT></SPAN></DIV>
<DIV><SPAN class=156381802-07122003><FONT
color=#0000ff></FONT></SPAN> </DIV>
<DIV><SPAN class=156381802-07122003><FONT color=#0000ff>Best
regards,</FONT></SPAN></DIV>
<DIV><SPAN class=156381802-07122003><FONT
color=#0000ff></FONT></SPAN> </DIV>
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<P class=MsoNormal style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt"><SPAN
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<DIV><FONT face=Tahoma size=2>-----Original Message-----<BR><B>From:</B>
plenary-admin@wsis-cs.org [mailto:plenary-admin@wsis-cs.org]<B>On Behalf Of
</B>Monthian Buntan<BR><B>Sent:</B> Saturday, December 06, 2003 8:41
PM<BR><B>To:</B> Hiroshi Kawamura; pwd@wsis-cs.org<BR><B>Cc:</B> Sally Burch;
ct-drafting@wsis-cs.org; ct@wsis-cs.org; plenary@wsis-cs.org<BR><B>Subject:</B>
[WSIS CS-Plenary] Re: [Pwd] (unicode) [WSIS-CT] RE: [Ct-drafting] URGENT: Please
send COMMENTS on CS declaration<BR><BR></FONT></DIV>
<BLOCKQUOTE dir=ltr style="MARGIN-RIGHT: 0px"><FONT size=3>Dear
Hiroshi:<BR><BR>Thank you for your kind imput. However, I have some
great concern over the word mental and physical disabilities. Under many
circumstances, the word "physical disabilities" may not include sensory
impairment at all. At least in thailand, the term "physical
disabilities" refer only to persons with mobility impairment. Therefore,
I would prefer "persons with disabilities" as it speaks for the broadest range
of "disabilities" regardless of types and severity.<BR><BR>Please seriously
take it into consideration or otherwise we may end up exlcuding many people
out of different understanding and interpretation.<BR><BR>Again, I confirm
that "persons with disabilities" is absolutely broader than "persons with
physical and mental disabilities."<BR><BR>Best
regards,<BR><BR>Thian<BR><BR> At 11:14 PM 12/6/2003, Hiroshi Kawamura
wrote:<BR>
<BLOCKQUOTE class=cite cite="" type="cite">The following text is copied from
WSIS-CT mailing list with permission of<BR>original author. ---
Hiroshi<BR><BR>----------------------------------------------------<BR><BR>The
paragraph posted by Sally Burch, below is the latest and most
accurate<BR>version of the MENTAL AND PHYSICAL HEALTH CARE section for
inclusion in the<BR>"PRINCIPLES, GOALS AND CHALLENGES section ( or possibly
in Social Justice<BR>section), which I had submitted.<BR><BR>The section
should be titled; MENTAL AND PHYSICAL HEALTH
CARE<BR><BR>The delivery of life-critical mental and physical health
information can be<BR>facilitated and improved through ICT-based solutions.
Lack of access to<BR>information and communication has been identified as a
critical factor in<BR>the public mental and physical health crises around
the world. Experts have<BR>suggested that providing citizens of
underdeveloped countries with community<BR>level points of access to mental
and physical health information would be a<BR>critical starting point for
addressing the mental and physical health care<BR>crises. However, such
access points should support more than one-way flows<BR>of information (for
example, from expert to community or patient).<BR>Communities must be
allowed to participate in the selection and creation of<BR>communication
flows that they find useful and necessary to address the<BR>prevention,
treatment, and promotion of mental and physical health care for<BR>all
people.<BR><BR>In addition, please note the following revisions in brackets,
which were<BR>previously recommended but in latest draft have been
omitted. Please<BR>re-insert. Most of these refer to specifying
mental and physical health, as<BR>opposed to only physical, and should be
included for consistency and<BR>clarity.<BR><BR>3.2.4 Access to Information
and the Means of Communication, paragraph 3<BR><BR>Specific needs and
requirements of all stakeholders, including those with<BR>[mental and
physical] disabilities, must be....<BR><BR>3.2.5 Basic literacy, par 1 last
sentence<BR><BR>People-centered information technologies can foster
eradication of [mental<BR>and physical] illnesses and epidemics, can help
give everyone food, shelter,<BR>freedom and peace.<BR><BR>3.2.5 Basic
literacy, par 3 last sentence<BR><BR>must include a focus on the needs of
people who have [mental and] physical<BR>impairments and all means of
transcending those impairments ...<BR><BR>3.3.8 Human development ­
education and training, par 2<BR> Literacy, education, and research
efforts in the Information Society must<BR>include a focus on the needs of
people who have [mental and] physical<BR>impairments and all means of
transcending those impairments....<BR><BR><BR><BR>In par 4
-<BR><BR><BR><BR>...special needs: those of young and elderly people, of
women, of people<BR>with [mental and physical] impairments, of indigenous
peoples, of migrant<BR>communities, of refugees and returnees in
post-conflict situations, in a<BR>life-long
perspective...<BR><BR><BR><BR><BR><BR>3.3.9 Information generation and
knowledge development - research, par 1,<BR>sentence 3<BR><BR><BR><BR>Clear
principles should be developed for the use and exploitation of the<BR>body
of knowledge produced [e.g. Scientific research data should be gender<BR>and
age disaggregated for mental and physical health.]<BR><BR><BR><BR><BR><BR>4.
Conclusion, par 2, last sentence<BR><BR><BR><BR>....the right to a standard
of living adequate for the [mental and physical]<BR>health and well-being of
the individual and his or her family, including<BR>food housing and (delete
medical) [mental and physical
health]care.<BR><BR><BR><BR><BR><BR>3.1.9 Rights of Persons with
Disabilities: recommended by Monthian Buntan<BR><BR><BR><BR>I also support
the inclusion of the section below recommended by Monthian<BR>Buntan,
however, I would recommend the following revisions to be consistent<BR>with
the rest of the document. While it is helpful to specify types
and<BR>degree of disabilities, these can be seen as referring to physical
only as<BR>often mental and physical health care have been disconnected in
many<BR>countries.<BR><BR><BR><BR>3.1.9 Rights of Persons with [Mental and
Physical] Disabilities:<BR><BR><BR>In the inclusive information society, the
rights of persons with [mental and<BR>physical] disabilities to have full
and absolute equal access to information<BR>and communications including
ICTs, regardless of types and degree of<BR>disabilities, must be ensured by
laws and policies at all levels. In order<BR>to achieve such goal,
Universal Design principle and the use of assistive<BR>technologies must be
seriously promoted and supported throughout the whole<BR>process of building
and nurturing the information society in which PWDs and<BR>their
organizations must be allowed to participate fully and on equal
terms<BR>with non-disabled people.<BR><BR><BR><BR><BR><BR>Thank you for all
your work on this. Look forward to meeting everyone in<BR>Geneva as
hoping to arrive Monday morning, however, there is a huge blizzard<BR>and
snowing now in New York and flights are
delayed.<BR><BR><BR><BR>Elizabeth<BR><BR><BR><BR>Dr. Elizabeth
Carll<BR><BR>Focal Point<BR><BR>International Society for Traumatic Stress
Studies<BR><BR>Tel: 631-754-2424<BR><BR>Fax:
631-754-5032<BR><BR>ecarll@optonline.net<BR><BR><BR><BR><BR>_______________________________________________<BR>Pwd
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