Rehabilitation addresses the impact of a health condition on a person’s everyday life by optimizing their functioning and reducing their experience of disability. Rehabilitation expands the focus of health beyond preventative and curative care to ensure people with a health condition can remain as independent as possible and participate in ...
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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 health system. As populations age and the ...
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The Rehabilitation 2030 initiative guides WHO/Europe’s work and emphasizes the need for concerted and coordinated action by all stakeholders to strengthen countries’ health systems to provide quality and timely rehabilitation. Strengthening rehabilitation within health systems begins with actions based on 6 foundational building blocks ...
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Rehabilitation is an essential part of health care, and is integral to achieving universal health coverage. Rehabilitation needs are increasing globally, along with rising prevalence of noncommunicable diseases and ageing populations. National efforts must strengthen health systems to provide rehabilitation, making it available to everyone at all levels of health care, whenever needed.
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The Rehabilitation 2030 initiative draws attention to the profound unmet need for rehabilitation worldwide and highlights the importance of strengthening health systems to provide rehabilitation. The initiative marks a new strategic approach for the global rehabilitation community by emphasizing that: Rehabilitation should be available for all the population and through all stages of the life ...
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Rehabilitation aims to support anyone with an injury, illness or development condition who experiences short- or long-term impairment and limitations in functioning. Rehabilitation can also be an important health service for people as they age, helping them remain active and independent for as long as possible. As part of the continuum of care, rehabilitation builds on curative interventions ...
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The World Rehabilitation Alliance (WRA) is a WHO global network of stakeholders whose mission is to support the implementation of the Rehabilitation 2030 Initiative through advocacy activities. It focuses on promoting rehabilitation as an essential health service that is integral to Universal Health Coverage and to the realization of ...
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The Rehabilitation in health systems: guide for action provides practical help that directs governments through the 4 phases and twelve steps. The process can take place at national or subnational level. Typically phases 1 to 3 occur over a 12-month period, while phase 4 occurs over the period of the strategic plan, around 5 years.
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The Package of interventions for rehabilitation is available with an introduction (module 1) and 7 disease area-specific modules providing the information on interventions for rehabilitation and related required resources. Web annexes for modules 2–8 provide (amongst others) information on the evidence identified for the interventions ...
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The RCF defines the core values and beliefs shared by the rehabilitation workforce, and encompasses the competencies, behaviours, knowledge and skills required to perform the range of activities and tasks involved in rehabilitation practice and service delivery. The RCF is accompanied by two guides that support its uptake and use: a guide for ...
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