Measuring Disability Among Migrant People in Urban Area

Good health for All is one of the main targets of the Sustainable Development Goals, ensuring quality of care for all people, including of course people with disability. Migrants with disability represent an invisible group of individuals who are forced to leave their countries. Data on refugees and asylum seekers with disability are lacking. They have poor access to rehabilitation health services, but in Italy there are law and policies to guarantee healthcare. The lack of standardized assessment of vulnerability represents the main barrier to organize specific service within the community involving migrants them-selves and institutions. National stakeholders are urgently called to cooperate for removing barrier to rehabilitation and assistive technology for refugees with disability. Main actions should be considered health literacy and empowerment of migrants, collecting data on health, disability and assistive technology, and organize community-based rehabilitation programs.