TITLE:
Advances in Health Promotion for People with Disabilities and the Laws of Brazil
AUTHORS:
Luciana Vieira de Carvalho, Aline Cruz Esmeraldo Áfio, Jânio Cavalcanti Rodrigues Junior, Cristiana Brasil de Almeida Rebouças, Lorita Marlena Freitag Pagliuca
KEYWORDS:
People with Disabilities, Health Promotion, Legislation
JOURNAL NAME:
Health,
Vol.6 No.18,
October
10,
2014
ABSTRACT: Brazilian laws
guarantee the protection to the rights of the citizenship of people with
disabilities and their participation in various social sectors which influence
health promotion. One aimed at reflecting about the health promotion actions
contemplated in Brazilian laws directed to people with physical, hearing and
visual disabilities. Through the website of the National Secretariat for the
Promotion of the Rights of People with Disabilities, one selected 14 laws whose
content was articulated to the Health Promotion Charts in the process of
discussion. The laws had as their main objective, the accessibility of people
with disabilities to urban spaces, health, income, education, transportation
and leisure, i.e. to public services
that are essential for the establishment of health. It is concluded that there
was a progress in the elaboration of laws that guarantee the rights and
integration of this population. However, it is observed that the non-compliance
of the laws makes the promotion of health impossible.