Rehabilitation is an important part of universal health coverage and is a key strategy for achieving Sustainable Development Goal 3 – “Ensure healthy lives and promote well-being for all at all ages”.
Emergencies including conflicts, disasters and outbreaks create enormous surges in rehabilitation needs while also disrupting rehabilitation services. In some low- and middle-income countries, more than 50% of people do not receive the rehabilitation services they require. Currently, the need for rehabilitation is largely unmet.For example, people are living longer, but with more chronic disease and disability. The need for rehabilitation worldwide is predicted to increase due to changes in the health and characteristics of the population.Globally, an estimated 2.4 billion people are currently living with a health condition that may benefits from rehabilitation.Rehabilitation helps a child, adult or older person to be as independent as possible in everyday activities and enables participation in education, work, recreation and meaningful life roles such as taking care of family.Rehabilitation is an essential part of universal health coverage along with promotion of good health, prevention of disease, treatment and palliative care.
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