DISABILITY IN ROMANIA AT THE CONFLUENCE BETWEEN SOCIAL INCLUSION AND EXCLUSION
DISABILITY IN ROMANIA AT THE CONFLUENCE BETWEEN SOCIAL INCLUSION AND EXCLUSION

Summary/Abstract: Disability has accompanied society in all historical periods. The disability approach should be carried out in a multidisciplinary context with medico-social implications. Although there is still a tendency to treat disability and handicap as purely medical conditions, these preconceptions must be overcome all the more since activists campaigning for the rights of people with disabilities have brought arguments to support the importance of approaching disability using a social model. The article aims at highlighting the current implications of disability reflected in the social level of our country, taking into account the fact that in recent years the relationship between disability, poverty and social exclusion is increasingly highlighted. The current trend of the phenomenon both at European and national level is on an upward slope of new recorded cases of disability, for which social protection measures are requested. From a social, educational and professional point of view, Romania currently does not have a strategy to encourage employers to integrate disabled people into work. The only forms of support for many disabled people remain social benefits in the form of allowances under Law 448 of 2006.

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