Faizan Jameel Khanzada, Brigitte Kamran.
Advantages of community based rehabilitation in Pakistan.
J Dow Uni Health Sci Jan ;6(1):22-4.

Aims: The aim of this study is to develop awareness of community-based rehabilitation for easy assessment of community-based problems and its effectiveness regarding disabled cases. Methods: A literature review was conducted on Medline, Springer link, Google scholar, etc. to obtain published articles on the “role of community-based rehabilitation in Pakistan,” “Effectiveness of community-based rehabilitation” and “Different ways of community-based rehabilitation in Pakistan.” The articles and other documents were then summarized to assess the awareness and effectiveness of community-based rehabilitation in Pakistan. Results: The community-based rehabilitation is a community driven multi-sector gross root system, which considers that "million of disable people have a right to lead a good life get benefits like equal opportunities, better quality of life, social and economic integration, medical care, education Clearly community-based rehabilitation served many challenges and to ease them in a creative imaginative solutions. So we needed to establish the community-based rehabilitation in Pakistan for the improvement the status of our society. Recommendations/Conclusion: It is suggested to promote and practice community-based rehabilitation system in Pakistan, being one of developing countries to provide equal opportunities and non-discriminative environment for the disabled people as independent and acceptable individual who will reduce the economic burden of the country.

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