Rehabilitation Global Needs
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Introduction[edit | edit source]
Rehabilitation is the care needed when a person is experiencing or is likely to experience limitations in everyday functioning due to aging or a health condition, including chronic diseases or disorders, injuries, or trauma. It is a critical health strategy to optimise everyday functioning and ensure the highest possible standard of health and well-being and can include exercise, balance training, home modification, sensory integration, communi ty activities, mobility aids, prosthetics/orthotics and many other interventions.[1]
In the 21st century rapid population ageing accompanied with a rise in chronic conditions, trauma/injury survival and non-communicable diseases (NCD) in conjunction with increasing global conflict, rapid urbanization and motorization are leading to a shift in health care needs.[2] This transition is increasing the exigency in access to good quality rehabilitation, especially in low and middle-income countries. To meet the needs of this growing population, WHO provided direction for coordinated action with Rehabilitation 2030: a call to action and provided a Rehabilitation in Health systems guideline to assist in upscaling rehabilitation services globally. (2-3).
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Resources[edit | edit source]
- Cieza A, Causey K, Kamenov K, Hanson SW, Chatterji S, Vos T. Global Estimates of the need for rehabilitation based on the Global Burden of Disease study 2019: a systematic analysis for the Global Burden of Disease Study 2019. The Lancet. 2020 Dec 1.
