Rehabilitation - World Health Organization (WHO) Rehabilitation is an important part of universal health coverage and is a key strategy for achieving Sustainable Development Goal 3 – “Ensure healthy lives and promote well-being for all at all ages” Misconceptions about rehabilitation Rehabilitation is not only for people with disabilities or long-term or physical impairments
Rehabilitation - World Health Organization (WHO) Rehabilitation services are often under funded and under valued, particularly in countries without strong health systems Rehabilitation helps to reduce the impacts of disease and injury on individuals, while also complimenting other health interventions
Package of interventions for rehabilitation - World Health Organization . . . The Package of interventions for rehabilitation (PIR) outlines the most essential interventions for rehabilitation for 20 health conditions, together with information on the required material resources and workforce that is usually skilled to deliver these interventions
Rehabilitation 2030 - World Health Organization (WHO) Globally, 1 in 3 people live with a health condition that benefits from rehabilitation These needs are spread across the lifespan, from children with congenital and intellectual impairment to young adults with physical limitations resulting from unintentional and war-related injuries to older people experiencing chronic disease or difficulties associated with ageing
Rehabilitation - World Health Organization (WHO) The density of skilled rehabilitation practitioners is less than 10 for every 1 million people in many low- and middle-income countries The number of occupational therapists, physiotherapists, physical medicine and rehabilitation doctors, speech and language therapists, and prosthetists and orthotists is far from what is required
Rehabilitation EURO - World Health Organization (WHO) The rehabilitation workforce comprises a range of skilled professionals in areas such as occupational therapy, orthotics, physiotherapy, audiology, prosthetics and psychology, as well as rehabilitation doctors, rehabilitation nurses, social workers, and speech and language therapists
Rehabilitation 2030: meeting report, Geneva, Switzerland, 10–11 July 2023 The 3rd Global Rehabilitation 2030 meeting was an opportunity to review progress of the Rehabilitation 2030 Call for Action so far, as well as to prepare for and coordinate the actions requested in the recent WHA76 6 resolution "Strengthening rehabilitation in health systems" adopted in May 2023
Basic package of interventions for rehabilitation: A toolkit for . . . The Basic package of interventions for rehabilitation: A toolkit for primary care professionals is being developed through a 2-phase process, involving the identification of priority rehabilitation interventions for task sharing as well as the development of the toolkit, accompanying training materials and an implementation guide