An Overview of Rehabilitation for Doctors
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What Is Rehabilitation?[edit | edit source]
A Global Need
A study in 2019 found that there were 2.4 billion people worldwide who were living with a health condition that would benefit from rehabilitation at some point in the course of their illness or injury, which equates to about one in three people in the world.[1] This was equivalent to 310 million years of life lived with disability.[1] These numbers have already increased by 63% since about 30 years ago and are expected to continue to increase significantly as the global population grows, ages, and lives longer, many with chronic conditions and non-communicable diseases.[1][2] The three largest groups of health conditions found to contribute to disability were musculoskeletal disorders, sensory impairments, and neurological disorders.[1]
The Rehabilitation Team[edit | edit source]
The Role of Doctors on the Interdisciplinary Rehabilitation Team[edit | edit source]
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- ↑ 1.0 1.1 1.2 1.3 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 [Internet]. 2020 Dec [cited 2022 May 16];396(10267):2006–17. Available from: https://www.thelancet.com/journals/lancet/article/PIIS0140-6736(20)32340-0/fulltext
- ↑ World. Rehabilitation [Internet]. Who.int. World Health Organization: WHO; 2021 [cited 2022 May 16]. Available from: https://www.who.int/news-room/fact-sheets/detail/rehabilitation
