Are all medical practices required by law to be accessible to those with all types of disability?
It is a surprise that there should be any countries in which there is no legal requirement for medical practices to be accessible to those with disabilities. However, this appears to be the case in Albania, Bosnia and Herzegovina, France and Germany.
On a more positive note, some 14 countries, together with California, are required to be so,
at least by 2015.
Of the qualifications provided, in Israel the requirement is by 2021, in Australia accessibility affects “[o]nly new buildings and new additions to old buildings”, and in Serbia, amongst other issues, “…medical equipment is inappropriate.”
Access to medical practices may be a necessary, but not sufficient, requirement for access to medicine. Access to both, however, is a necessity and one that, in a number of countries, does not appear, yet, to be available.
All medical practices are required by law to be accessible, using generally accepted criteria, for example, those of “universal access”, to those with all types of disability by 2015.
For example, only newly built medical practices.
Or just some medical practices have this obligation. Or the criteria are ineffective.
There is no legal requirement for medical practices to be accessible to those with any type of disability.
 Albania (ALB) |
No legal requirement for medical practices |
 Argentina (ARG) |
Some medical practices are required by law |
 Australia (AUS) |
Some medical practices are required by law |
 Austria (AUT) |
Some medical practices are required by law |
 Belgium – Federal State Walloon (BEL) |
All medical practices are required by law |
 Bosnia and Herzegovina (BIH) |
No legal requirement for medical practices |
 Bulgaria (BUL) |
All medical practices are required by law |
 Canada (CAN) |
Some medical practices are required by law |
 Croatia (CRO) |
Some medical practices are required by law |
 Czech Republic (CZE) |
All medical practices are required by law |
 Denmark (DNK) |
Some medical practices are required by law |
 Estonia (EST) |
All medical practices are required by law |
 Finland (FIN) |
Some medical practices are required by law |
 France (FRA) |
No legal requirement for medical practices |
 Germany (DEU) |
No legal requirement for medical practices |
 Hungary (HUN) |
Some medical practices are required by law |
 Ireland (IRL) |
Some medical practices are required by law |
 Israel (ISR) |
Some medical practices are required by law |
 Italy (ITA) |
Some medical practices are required by law |
 Kosovo (RKS) |
All medical practices are required by law |
 Macedonia (MKD) |
All medical practices are required by law |
 Mexico (MEX) |
Some medical practices are required by law |
 Montenegro (MNE) |
Some medical practices are required by law |
 Netherlands (NED) |
All medical practices are required by law |
 Portugal (POR) |
All medical practices are required by law |
 Romania (ROU) |
Some medical practices are required by law |
 Serbia (SRB) |
Some medical practices are required by law |
 Slovakia (SVK) |
All medical practices are required by law |
 Slovenia (SLO) |
All medical practices are required by law |
 South Africa (RSA) |
All medical practices are required by law |
 Spain (ESP) |
Some medical practices are required by law |
 Sweden (SWE) |
Some medical practices are required by law |
 Switzerland (SUI) |
Some medical practices are required by law |
 Turkey (TUR) |
Some medical practices are required by law |
 United Kingdom (UK) |
Some medical practices are required by law |
 United States – California (US CA) |
All medical practices are required by law |
| United States – New York (US NY state) |
Some medical practices are required by law |
