Equal Treatment is an ERASMUS+ funded project with the aim to improve the access of people with intellectual disabilities to secondary and tertiary health care through inclusive European policies in healthcare services; training of healthcare staff on interacting with patients with intellectual disabilities and; stronger collaboration between healthcare staff and professional supporters.
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:
SUPPORTED RIGHTS AND ACCESS OF PEOPLE WITH INTELLECTUAL DISABILITIES TO SECONDARY AND TERTIARY HEALTHCARE SERVICES.
The project is led by EPR together with six other organisations and universities including:
EEA Margarita (Greece)
Research Center of Biopolitics of Panteion University (RECEBI) (Greece)
Kaunas College (Lithuania)
Girona Biomedical Research Institute (IDIBGI) (Spain)
Arnau d’Escala Campus Foundation (FCAE) (Spain)
Tampere University of Applied Sciences (TAMK) (Finland)
Consult Equal Treatment website here, developed in collaboration with Tampere University of Applied Sciences, to discover more aspects and initiatives of the project.
Panita Ball, Projects and Events Officer at EPR: pball@epr.eu
Roberto Zanon, Senior Project and Policy Officer at EPR: rzanon@epr.eu
Funded by the European Union. Views and opinions expressed are however those of the author(s) only and do not necessarily reflect those of the European Union or the European Education and Culture Executive Agency (EACEA). Neither the European Union nor EACEA can be held responsible for them.