Abstract
Achieving Universal Health Coverage (UHC) is a World Health Organization (WHO) strategic
priority. UHC means “all people receive quality health services that meet their needs
without being exposed to financial hardship in paying for the services.” Rehabilitation
is among the services included in UHC. As part of the WHO Rehabilitation 2030 call
for action, WHO is developing its Package of Rehabilitation Interventions (PRI) to
support ministries of health in planning, budgeting, and integrating rehabilitation
interventions into health systems. The aim of this paper is to introduce and describe
the PRI and its methodology.
An advisory board composed of members from different WHO departments is overseeing
the project, which is led by the WHO Rehabilitation Programme in collaboration with
Cochrane Rehabilitation.
The development of the PRI is conducted in 6 steps: (1) selection of health conditions
(for which rehabilitation interventions will be included in the PRI) based on prevalences,
related levels of disability, and expert opinion; (2) identification of rehabilitation
interventions and related evidence for the selected health conditions from Clinical
Practice Guidelines and Cochrane Reviews; (3) expert agreement on the inclusion of
rehabilitation interventions in the PRI; (4) description of resources required for
the provision of selected interventions; (5) peer review process, and (6) production
of an open source web-based tool. Rehabilitation experts and consumers from all world
regions will collaborate in the different steps.
In developing the PRI, WHO is taking an important step toward strengthening rehabilitation
in health systems, thus enabling more people to benefit from rehabilitation.
Keywords
List of abbreviations:
AGREE II (Appraisal of Guidelines for Research and Evaluation), CPG (Clinical Practice Guideline), CSR (Cochrane Systematic Review), GBD (Global Burden of Disease), ICF (International Classification of Functioning, Disability and Health), PRI (Package of Rehabilitation Interventions), UHC (Universal Health Coverage), WHO (World Health Organization)To read this article in full you will need to make a payment
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Published online: June 14, 2019
Footnotes
Supported in part by the United States Agency for International Development .
Disclosures: none.
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