[WSIS CS-Plenary] Re: [WSIS-CT] almost final version 4.3 of WSIS CS statement

[Elizabeth Carll, PhD]

Dear Catherine and all,

I can understand your confusion if you have not been following the issues.
And therefore to help clarify I believe the posts below identify most
clearly the issues and the need to insure that resources are allocated for
both physical  and mental health.   I am not aware of any country which is
as enlightened to the degree that it recognizes that physical and mental
health  should be seamless and part of primary care as has been put forth by
Sylvis and Kicki.  Most countries will not allocate resources which are not
identified.

For example, women who have been raped and tortured as a by product of war
and consider suicide as an alternative to having to face the reality of
returning to their home and being ostracized, need intensive mental health
services and psychosocial support.  This has nothing to do with disability,
but can affect anyone person who may be living in an unfortunate situation
of war and conflict.  Mental health issues and services affect the entire
poulation, not only the disability community.

I still would like to hear of any country that has the seamless services for
physical and mental health, to which Kicki and Sylvia have referred.

Elizabeth
  -----Original Message-----
  From: wsishealth-and-ict at yahoogroups.com
[mailto:wsishealth-and-ict at yahoogroups.com]On Behalf Of Elizabeth Carll, PhD
  Sent: Sunday, December 18, 2005 3:45 PM
  To: Kicki Nordström; Sylvia Caras; Hiroshi Kawamura
  Cc: Pwd at wsis-cs.org; plenary at wsis-cs.org; WSIS-CT;
wsishealth-and-ict at yahoogroups.com
  Subject: [wsishealth-and-ict] RE: almost final version 4.3 of WSIS CS
statement


  Dear Kicki, Sylvia, and all

  Because we may believe that health is seamless and mental health must be
  integrated into primary care does not mean that is the current reality.

  Perhaps I am overlooking something here and if you could list the
countries
  which have a seamless service for physical and mental health and treat
them
  as part of primary care, it would very helpful in understanding your
  perspective.

  Elizabeth

  -----Original Message-----
  From: Kicki Nordström [mailto:kino at iris.se]
  Sent: Sunday, December 18, 2005 3:29 PM
  To: Sylvia Caras; Elizabeth Carll, PhD; Hiroshi Kawamura
  Cc: Pwd at wsis-cs.org; wsishealth-and-ict at yahoogroups.com
  Subject: SV: almost final version 4.3 of WSIS CS statement


  Dear Sylvia and Elisabeth,

  Of course: "Because health is seamless, and those services must be
  integrated into primary care."

  This is also what IDC has proposed for the Article on Health in the
  convention of the rights of PWD.

  Times moves and use of wordings changes over time. Now  time have come to
  reform the term 2physical and mental health" and see this as "health"
since
  it is just the same.


  Kind regards
  Kicki
  Kicki Nordström
  World Blind Union
  Immediate Past  President
  c/o SRF Iris AB
  122 88 Enskede
  Sweden
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  Fax: +46 (0)8 725 99 20
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  E-mail: kino at iris.se

  -----Ursprungligt meddelande-----
  Från: Sylvia Caras [mailto:sylvia at peoplewho.org]
  Skickat: den 18 december 2005 21:15
  Till: Elizabeth Carll, PhD; Kicki Nordström; Hiroshi Kawamura
  Kopia: Pwd at wsis-cs.org; wsishealth-and-ict at yahoogroups.com
  Ämne: RE: almost final version 4.3 of WSIS CS statement

  Elizabeth Carll, PhD wrote on 11:58 AM 12/18/05:
  >I couldn't agree with you more that physical and mental health should
  >not be separated

  But you just separated them in that sentence!

  >approximately 40% of the world's countries have no articulated mental
  >health policy, and over 30% have no mental health programs.

  Because health is seamless.

  >disparity in services for mental health

  Because health is seamless, and those services must be integrated into
  primary care.

  Sylvia






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