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<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 type=cite class=cite cite>The following text is copied from
WSIS-CT mailing list with permission of<br>
original author. --- Hiroshi<br><br>
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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>
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