Towards a preventive approach to disability
How can we switch from a reactive policy to a preventive policy? CM makes five recommendations.
- Prevent people from becoming incapacitated for work
- Do decent work
- Provide a living benefit
- Continue to focus on a (broader) reintegration policy
- Role and responsibility of CM
Today the focus is mainly on getting people who are already disabled to work again.
There must be at least an equal focus on preventing people from becoming incapacitated for work. That is the responsibility of the entire society.
To achieve this, we must focus on a decisive general prevention policy . This can be done by increasing the prevention budget to 3 percent of health care expenditure.
