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Equal Treatment

Supporting rights and access of people with intellectual disabilities to secondary and tertiary healthcare services

About

Despite many EU policy recommendations on People with Disabilities health and their rights to access health care services, approximately, people with a learning disability die, on average, 16 years younger than the general population, and are over 4 times more likely to die from causes that were amenable to good quality healthcare.

For this reason, this project will focus on one main objective:

SUPPORTING RIGHTS AND ACCESS OF PEOPLE WITH INTELLECTUAL DISABILITIES (PWID) TO SECONDARY AND TERTIARY HEALTHCARE SERVICES.

Results

  1. More effective policies on PWID inclusion in HealthCare services.
  2. Lower barriers for PWID to access HealthCare services.
  3. More effective training of HealthCare Staff to interact with PWID.
  4. Stronger and better collaboration between HealthCare Staff and other professional supporters.

Target Groups

  • Project Beneficiaries:
    • Doctors, Nurses, Administrative staff in secondary and tertiary HealthCare services (HealthCare Staff).
    • Educators, Psychologists, Social workers, etc. supporting People with intellectual disabilities.
    • (Professional Supporters).
  • Final target group:
    • People with intellectual disabilities.

Deliverables

  • Study “People with intellectual disabilities rights and access to HealthCare services in Europe”.
  • EQUAL TREATMENT: self-learning e-modules for HealthCare staff.
  • EQUAL TREATMENT FACILITATOR PATHWAY: self-learning e-module for Professional Supporters.

Impact

On Beneficiaries:

  • Healthcare Staff and Professional supporters.
    • Enhanced quality of intervention and more inclusive environment in HealthCare services.
    • Better knowledge of the rights of PWID.
  • Universities:
    • Improved training offer and enhanced employability of their students.

On the Final Target group:

  • Better Health, reinforced social inclusion, supported rights, better Quality of life of People with intellectual disabilities.

Transversal impact/impact on other stakeholders:

  • Better Quality of life of People with intellectual disabilities’ families.
  • Raised awareness on the topic of Rights, social inclusion, diversity management.

Partners

The project is led by the European Platform for Rehabilitation (Belgium) together with six other organisations and universities: