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1. Vulnerable populations: disabilities and
inclusion indicators based ICF for
inclusive emergency management
KAISER, Carlos (1); VASQUEZ, Armando (2); ELKOUSS, Eduardo (3)
1: ONG Inclusiva, Chile carlos.kaiser@onginclusiva.com ;
2: Pan American Health Organization-World Health Organization,
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No specific country; vasqueza@arg.ops-oms.org
3: UIA, Spain arquitectura@elkouss.es
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Introduction
People with disabilities global prevalence is - according to World Health Organization
(WHO) World Report on
Disabilities- 15%, one thousands million people live with any disability and 3% of them have
severe functioning problems.
According to the classification of functioning, disability and health, functioning of a person
with disability will be negative affected when facing barriers, if this happens in an
emergency survival opportunities will decrease and risk of injury will rise.
Architectonical barriers and cultural ones make people with disabilities the most vulnerable
population. The goals are a) to reduce emergency risk to people with disabilities, b) to
render disabilities and inclusion indicators based on Classification of Functioning, Disability
and Health ICF, c) to decrease injuries, and e) to reduce new disabilities to happen as a
consequence of emergencies.
To make substantial progress towards a world safe for all, disabilities and inclusion
indicators must be used to assure every component of emergency management to be
inclusive for all. Current paper offers disabilities and inclusion indicators (quantitative and
qualitative ones) and tools such as the inclusive index calculation matrix, all of them based
on the
ICF for generating inclusive emergency management produced through documental
revision, primary and secondary sources consultation and expert validation, establishing ICF
scientific validity as a source for Disabilities and Inclusion indicators production.

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5. People with Disabilities, enviromental risk factors
People with disabilities are more vulnerable to disaster because of architectonical,
cultural and technological barriers. To reduce Disaster risk for People with Disabilities
all these barriers will be eliminated/ reduced, and every procedure must be inclusive,
thus making Peñaflor Town Resilient for all
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6. Disability Variable, Inclusion Indicator and Inclusion Index
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Situation, Moment, Place
Situation Moment Place
Emergecy/
catastrophe
a) Morning
b) Noon.
c) After noon.
d) Night
Home
Work place, school,
university,
rehabilitation center
Public places,
streets, parks
In a car, bus, subway,
train

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10. Added value for the Post 2015 Framework for
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Disaster Risk Reduction
• How did your work support the implementation of the Hyogo Framework
for Action:
– Hyogo Framework for Action did not address Disabilities directly, but supported the
concepts of Vulnerable Populations, and the concept of Resilience. The current
work supports the above mentioned concepts
– Current work helps to implement the Hyogo Framework for Action providing an
epistemic framework to deal with disabilities and disasters through the IFC from
the World Health Organization, Inclusion indicators , practical tools ready to be
used
• From your perspective what are the main gaps, needs and further steps to
be addressed in the Post 2015 Framework for Disaster Risk Reduction in
– Research: one of the main gaps is about morbidity rate of people with disabilities
due to Disasters. Is also needed to research relation of environment barriers and
DRR for people with disabilities and elderly people.
– Education & Training: there is a serious gap related to Inclusive DRR
– Implementation & Practice: there is a huge need for environment barriers
reduction
– Policy: policy making need to be more participative, all platforms and content must
be universally designed for everyone