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HPA / NRPB: In the Forthcoming Review on Electrosensitivity A serious mistake can be found
Sweden Created: 14 Sep 2005
In the recent Press Statement (see below) from the Health Protection Agency (HPA) of England and Wales, a serious mistake can be found (see below at [***]).

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12 September 2005
Forthcoming Review on Electrosensitivity

Recent newspaper articles about a forthcoming report from the Health Protection Agency are speculative, and various assertions about its contents are inaccurate. (Sunday Times, 11 Sept 2005; Daily Mail, 12 September 2005).

The report will be a scientific review of the topic of electrosensitivity with a public health perspective. It will not be a definitive statement of policy from the
Board of the Health Protection Agency.
The Board of the Agency is not in a position to make a decision on whether electrosensitivity is a "medical condition" or not.
This is for the medical profession to decide on an international basis.

The report will be published next month with a press release summarising its contents. This will be available to news media under embargo. http://www.hpa.org.uk/hpa/news/articles/press_releases/2005/050912_electrosensitivity.htm
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[***] In Sweden, under various international and national handicap laws and regulations - such as the UN 22 Standard Rules and the Swedish action plan
for persons with impairments (prop. 1999/2000:79
"Den nationella handlingplanen för handikappolitiken - Från patient till medborgare"), the Swedish Act concerning Support and Service for Persons with
Certain Functional Impairments (LSS-lagen), the Swedish Social Services Act (Socialtjänstlagen), and the Human Rights Act of the EU
- or elsewhere in the world among all UN nations, impairments are NOT "for the medical profession to decide on an international basis".
Persons with impairments are NOT "a medical condition".
This is very important to realize and understand.

Olle Johansson, assoc. prof.
The Experimental Dermatology Unit
Department of Neuroscience
Karolinska Institute
171 77 Stockholm
Sweden)
Source: Olle Johansson, assoc. prof. The Experimental Dermatology Unit. Department of Neuroscience. Karolinska Institute. 171 77 Stockholm

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