Rehabilitation in Africa - 26/09/19

Doi : 10.1016/j.pmr.2019.07.002

Sisay Gizaw Geberemichael, MD ^a,^⁎ , Abena Yeboaa Tannor, BSc, MBChB, MSc (Rehab), MGCP ^b, Tesfaye Berhe Asegahegn, MD ^a, Asare B. Christian, MD, MPH ^c, Gloria Vergara-Diaz, MD ^d,^{^{1
Present address: PO Box 300 First Avenue, Charlestown, MA 02129.}}, Andrew J. Haig, MD ^e,^f,^{^{2
Present address: PO Box: 524, Londonderry, VT 05148.}}
^a Department of Neurology, St. Paul's Hospital Millennium Medical College, PO Box 1271, Addis Ababa, Ethiopia
^b Disability and Rehabilitation Studies, Komfo Anokye Teaching Hospital, Kwame Nkrumah University of Science and Technology, PO Box: 1934, Kumasi, Ghana
^c Good Shepherd Rehabilitation Hospital, PO Box: 850 South 5th Street, Allentown, PA 18103, USA
^d Department of Physical Medicine and Rehabilitation, Harvard Medical School, Spaulding Rehabilitation Hospital, Boston, MA, USA
^e The University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, MI, USA
^f Haig Consulting PLC, MI, USA

^∗Corresponding author. PO Box 12111, Addis Ababa, Ethiopia.PO Box 12111Addis AbabaEthiopia

Résumé

In Africa, rehabilitation services are insufficient and marred with inadequate political commitments and collaborations of stakeholders. Infrastructures and expertise for rehabilitation are scarce and poorly coordinated. Community-based rehabilitation programs are fragmented and fractured and lack working partnership with rehabilitation services in health care systems. Locally responsive policy frameworks, service delivery models, and health governance practices are prerequisites for meeting rehabilitation needs of the ever-increasing number of persons with chronic disabling conditions. Concerted global efforts are required for equitable and accessible coordinated continuum of rehabilitation care at various levels of health services and the community in most Sub-Saharan African countries.

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Keywords : Rehabilitation, Rehabilitation services, Disability research, Africa, Community-based rehabilitation

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Disability and rehabilitation practices in Africa

Rehabilitation services in Africa: lessons learned

The future of rehabilitation services in Africa

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Vol 30 - N° 4

P. 757-768 - novembre 2019 Retour au numéro

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