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Major Incidents, Pandemics and Mental Health from Section 6 - Designing, Leading, and Managing Responses to Emergencies and Pandemics
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 11 January 2024
This chapter focuses on caring for people who have disabilities who are affected by emergencies and pandemics. The World Health Organization (WHO) estimates that about 1.3 billion people have some degree of disability. It highlights the wide spectrum of severity of disability that people display, and points out that how data are collected, combined with the lack of clear definition of the term disability, makes it hard to be precise about the numbers and proportions of people with serious intellectual or developmental disability compared with those with a range of physical disabilities, or with both. It concludes that the principle of equity demands that people who have disabilities need to have individual plans for their care. It proposes that emergency planning should take account of the needs of vulnerable people, including those people who have a disability, and that they have a role in planning for, preparing for, and responding to emergencies.
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