Reflecting the world report on disability: A report from Sweden

• Abstract: There is a range of statistics in Sweden regarding people with functional limitations available from different authorities presenting diverging information. Although healthcare and social welfare legislations aim for equal access and treatment, surveys about unmet needs show that opportunities for rehabilitation are unequal among diagnoses and around the country and insufficient in the long-term. There is also a law granting certain supports and services to those people who are considered to be in need of having someone to speak for them. Disability-related services are tax financed with a symbolic fee. Rehabilitation is performed by not only physical and rehabilitation medicine specialists. Rehabilitation research is mainly within healthcare science but also in social science. Disability services need better coordination, and an agency has recently been founded with this responsibility. More politicians should engage in disability-related issues, and more people with disability should get into politics. Copyright © 2013 by Lippincott Williams & Wilkins.

Subject headings

MEDICIN OCH HÄLSOVETENSKAP  -- Medicinska och farmaceutiska grundvetenskaper -- Neurovetenskaper (hsv//swe)

MEDICAL AND HEALTH SCIENCES  -- Basic Medicine -- Neurosciences (hsv//eng)

Keyword

Epidemiology

Persons with disability

Policy

Rehabilitation

article

disability

disabled person

economics

female

health

health care delivery

health care policy

health care survey

health service

human

male

management

research

statistics

Sweden

world health organization

Disability Evaluation

Disabled Persons

Health Care Surveys

Health Policy

Health Services Accessibility

Health Services Needs and Demand

Humans

Policy Making

Research Report

World Health

Publication and Content Type

ref (subject category)

art (subject category)