Announcing The Lancet Commission on Disability and Health: Creating disability-inclusive health systems that leave no one behind

[Mij]

Urgent and decisive action is needed to address the 14-year life expectancy gap between people with and people without disabilities.1,2 However, disability is generally a low priority for governments and global health funders across the world, with little dedicated funding or attention.1,3,4

This new Lancet Commission—the first focused on disability and health—will generate action-oriented evidence to make the case to global health actors as to why and how to include people with disabilities in health systems. Our recommendations will be relevant to governments, UN agencies, international donors, non-governmental organizations, health-care workers, the private sector, academics, and people with disabilities and their representative organizations.
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[rvallee]

leave no one behind

Except you, and you, and, uh, also those guys, and whoever has this, or looks like that, or if it feels like it could be something else, or whatever. And, oh, those jerks, they make us feel bad, so those get left behind so much!

Although to be fair, I'm not really interested in extending my life. Not like this. That would actually be a worst case scenario: living like this longer. I want to no longer be ill, after that life expectancy can be looked at.

So it would be QALYs. There has to be quality to those years of life. I have not had any quality of life for the last 16 years, and frankly don't want much more of those. I want the good stuff. Not the bad stuff. I don't know if they can really tell the difference. For certain all evidence shows otherwise.

I'm really not sure I want the Lancet's opinions on that, to be honest. For sure they represent nothing that is good for me, or any of us here.

 

[MrMagoo]

Desperate for relevance

 

[Sean]

Not to mention covering their own arses.