Poland – Health and social care 2nd NAP

2. Ministry of Family and Social Policy

The first Polish Strategy for Persons with Disabilities 2021–2030

[page 17-20]

“In 2020, a draft Strategy for Persons with Disabilities was developed in the Ministry of Family and Social Policy.”

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“Another priority area of the Strategy is ‘Living conditions and social protection’. “

(…) “Within the ‘Health’ priority area, measures have been planned in order to fulfil Poland’s obligations following from the Convention (Article 25), in particular to provide persons with disabilities with health care, access to health services and programmes taking into account their specific requirements and needs with respect to health prevention, prevention of secondary complications and deterioration of health condition, medical rehabilitation and optimisation of the quality of functioning. The planned measures concern, among others, improvement of accessibility of preventive medical treatment, improvement of accessibility of health services, improvement of access to rehabilitation services and the highest quality medical devices, development of a model of comprehensive rehabilitation, reform in the field of mental health and improvement of medical personnel’s competencies in the field of health care of persons with disabilities.”