Rehabilitation workforce descriptors: a scoping review.

ABSTRACT:

Background

A comprehensive, accurate description of workforce capacity is important for health service planning, to ensure that health services meet local needs. In many low- to middle-income countries, the government's service planning ability is barred by the lack of accurate and/or comprehensively-described workforce data. In these low-resource settings, lack of appropriate planning leads to limited or no access to rehabilitation services. Variability in the definitions and scope of rehabilitation professionals further complicates the understanding of rehabilitation services and how it should be planned and delivered. Another challenge to describing the primary rehabilitation workforce capacity, is the lack of standardised and agreed-upon global metrics. These inconsistencies hi

SUBMITTER: Conradie T 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC9482289 | biostudies-literature | 2022 Sep

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature