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Strengthening rehabilitation in health emergency preparedness, response, and resilience: policy brief outlines the evidence for rehabilitation in emergencies and the need for greater preparedness of rehabilitation services. It shows how existing guidelines support the integration of rehabilitation i ... more
The RehApp is specifically designed for fieldworkers in low-and middle-income countries and aims to enhance their capacity to work with people with disabilities within the community: assess their abilities and inabilities, design rehabilitation interventions, provide care and support and refer appro ... more
The report notes that the number of people in need of one or more assistive products is likely to rise to 3.5 billion by 2050, due to populations ageing and the prevalence of noncommunicable diseases rising across the world. The report also highlights the vast gap in access between low- and high-inc ... more
The Rehabilitation Competency Framework (RCF) is a model that communicates the expected or aspired performance of the rehabilitation workforce across professions, specializations and settings to enable quality care and service delivery.
El Marco de Competencias para la Rehabilitación (MCR) es un modelo que comunica el desempeño que se espera o al que se aspira del personal de rehabilitación en todas las profesiones, especializaciones y entornos para hacer posible una atención y una prestación de servicios de calidad. Incluy ... more
Le Cadre de compétences en réadaptation (CCR) est un modèle qui présente les performances attendues ou souhaitées pour les effectifs de réadaptation dans les différentes professions, spécialisations et les différents contextes afin d’offrir des soins et une prestation de services de qu ... more
The assistive technology capacity assessment (ATA-C) is a system-level tool to evaluate a country’s capacity to finance, regulate, procure and provide assistive technology. It can be used for awareness raising, policy and programme design, and ongoing monitoring and evaluation. This manual provide ... more
The WHO Guidelines on physical activity and sedentary behaviour provide evidence-based public health recommendations for children, adolescents, adults and older adults on the amount of physical activity (frequency, intensity and duration) required to offer significant health benefits and mitigate he ... more
The Lancet. 1 December 2020. doi: 10.1016/S0140-6736(20)32340-0. To our knowledge, this is the first study to produce a global estimate of the need for rehabilitation services and to show that at least one in every three people in the world needs rehabilitation at some point in the course of their ... more
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Rehabilitation in health systems provides recommendations for Member States and other relevant stakeholders to strengthen and expand the availability of quality rehabilitation services. Currently, there is a significant unmet need for rehabilitation services and it is frequently undervalued in the h ... more
WHO, in partnership with the International Society for Prosthetics and Orthotics (ISPO) and the United States Agency for International Development (USAID), has published global standards for prosthetics and orthotics. Its aim is to ensure that prosthetics and orthotics services are people-centred an ... more
WHO, in partnership with the International Society for Prosthetics and Orthotics (ISPO) and the United States Agency for International Development (USAID), has published global standards for prosthetics and orthotics. Its aim is to ensure that prosthetics and orthotics services are people-centred an ... more
With the health and demographic trends that characterise the 21st century, health systems face new challenges; people are living longer and with higher levels of disability. Strengthening health systems to provide rehabilitation services helps ensure people not only live longer but live well.
The main objectives of these guidelines are: A. To create awareness among the CBM family (International Office, Member Associations, Regional Offices, Country Offices and partners) on the opportunity savings groups create to attain socio-economic empowerment of a significantly larger number of pers ... more
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