WHO disability-inclusive health services training package: a companion to the Disability-inclusive health services toolkit
A resource for health facilities in the Western Pacific Region
22 June 2023
| Training material
Overview
The WHO Disability-Inclusive Health Services Training Package is a companion to the “WHO Disability-Inclusive Health Services Toolkit: A resource for health facilities in the Western Pacific Region” published by WHO in 2020. This package offers a range of additional training materials including presentations, workbooks and videos that will allow users to develop the foundational skills and understanding of the Toolkit for its implementation. Together the Toolkit and Training Package will help ensure equitable access to health services, best-quality outcomes and improved quality of life for all people with disabilities to achieve universal health coverage.
Modules
- Why is disability inclusion important
- What is disability
- Getting started in applying disability-inclusive practice
- What are attitudinal barriers and why do they matter
- Addressing attitudinal barriers in your health service
- What are physically accessible health services and why are they important
- How to make your health service physically accessible
- Understanding communication barriers
- Strategies and good practices in disability-inclusive communication in health care
- Why and how should you collect disability data
- How to use disability data for planning, monitoring and evaluation (126.0Kb)
- What is rehabilitation and why is it important
- Rehabilitation as part of a disability-inclusive health service
- Disability-inclusive health in emergencies
- Disability-Inclusive health during the COVID-19 Pandemic