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Rehabilitation in Disaster Relief
- Source :
- Physical Medicine and Rehabilitation Clinics of North America. 30:723-747
- Publication Year :
- 2019
- Publisher :
- Elsevier BV, 2019.
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Abstract
- Rehabilitation plays a crucial role in natural disasters owing to the significant upsurge of survivors with complex and long-term disabling injuries. Rehabilitation professionals can minimize mortality, decrease disability, and improve clinical outcomes and participation. In disaster-prone countries, skilled rehabilitation workforce and services are either limited and/or comprehensive rehabilitation-inclusive disaster management plans are yet to be developed. The World Health Organization Emergency Medical Team initiative and guidelines provide structure and standardization to prepare, plan, and provide effective and coordinated care during disasters. Many challenges remain for implementation of these standards in disaster settings and integrating rehabilitation personnel.
- Subjects :
- Standardization
Natural Disasters
medicine.medical_treatment
Disaster Planning
Guidelines as Topic
Physical Therapy, Sports Therapy and Rehabilitation
World Health Organization
Disaster Medicine
World health
03 medical and health sciences
0302 clinical medicine
Quality of life (healthcare)
medicine
Humans
Disabled Persons
Natural disaster
Rehabilitation
Emergency management
business.industry
030229 sport sciences
medicine.disease
Workforce
Medical emergency
InformationSystems_MISCELLANEOUS
business
Delivery of Health Care
Disaster medicine
030217 neurology & neurosurgery
Subjects
Details
- ISSN :
- 10479651
- Volume :
- 30
- Database :
- OpenAIRE
- Journal :
- Physical Medicine and Rehabilitation Clinics of North America
- Accession number :
- edsair.doi.dedup.....95f64a2d9aea7272191b1e368cbabadc