TY - JOUR
T1 - The world report on disability: A challenge for rehabilitation medicine
AU - Bethge, Matthias
AU - Von Groote, Per
AU - Giustini, Alessandro
AU - Gutenbrunner, Christoph
PY - 2014/1
Y1 - 2014/1
N2 - Abstract: To analyze the life situation of people with disabilities and to summarize the evidence of measures to support their participation, the World Health Assembly requested the World Health Organization to produce a World Report on Disability. This article highlights some of the main contents of the World Report on Disability, with a special focus on the rehabilitation chapter. It starts by presenting epidemiologic findings on the global disability prevalence, views on the role of rehabilitation medicine, discrepancies between met and unmet needs, and challenges for the quality of rehabilitation services and ends with an outlook on the report's recommendations and efforts toward their implementation.
AB - Abstract: To analyze the life situation of people with disabilities and to summarize the evidence of measures to support their participation, the World Health Assembly requested the World Health Organization to produce a World Report on Disability. This article highlights some of the main contents of the World Report on Disability, with a special focus on the rehabilitation chapter. It starts by presenting epidemiologic findings on the global disability prevalence, views on the role of rehabilitation medicine, discrepancies between met and unmet needs, and challenges for the quality of rehabilitation services and ends with an outlook on the report's recommendations and efforts toward their implementation.
UR - http://www.scopus.com/inward/record.url?scp=84891793075&partnerID=8YFLogxK
U2 - 10.1097/PHM.0000000000000016
DO - 10.1097/PHM.0000000000000016
M3 - Journal articles
C2 - 24356081
AN - SCOPUS:84891793075
SN - 0894-9115
VL - 93
SP - S4-S11
JO - American Journal of Physical Medicine and Rehabilitation
JF - American Journal of Physical Medicine and Rehabilitation
IS - 1 SUPPL.1
ER -
