INTRODUCTION: The outbreak of COVID-19 epidemics has challenged the provision of
health care worldwide, highlighting the main flaws of some national health systems with …

There is strong evidence that population ageing and the epidemiological transition to a
higher incidence of chronic, non-communicable diseases will continue to profoundly impact …

Introduction: Scoping reviews are increasingly popular in rehabilitation. However, significant
variability in scoping review conduct and reporting currently exists, limiting potential for the …

The World Health Organization (WHO) concept of human functioning represents a new way
of thinking about health that has wide-ranging consequences. This article explicates this …

Purpose To compare stroke-specific health related quality of life in two country-regions with
organisational differences in subacute rehabilitation services, and to reveal whether …

Background Good governance may result in strengthened performance of a health system.
Coherent policies are essential for good health system governance. The overall aim of this …

Objective: To develop a revised version of the International Classification of Service
Organization in Rehabilitation (ICSO-R). Design: Qualitative study. Methods: The revision …

OBJECTIVE: One of the aims of the World Health Organization's Global Disability Action
Plan is to strengthen rehabilitation services. Some countries have requested support to …

Objectives To identify key dimensions of patients' experience across the rehabilitative care
system and to recommend a framework to develop survey items that measure the …

Rehabilitation uses a person-centred approach that relies on dynamic case management
and works across sectors, including social protection, labour, and education to improve …