Rehabilitation in the context of WHO’s mandate

Rehabilitation is the interventions needed when a person is experiencing limitations in everyday physical, mental and social functioning due to ageing or a health condition, including noncommunicable diseases or disorders, injuries or trauma.1 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 family life. Rehabilitation does so by addressing underlying conditions; by helping to overcome difficulties with thinking, seeing, hearing, communicating, eating or mobility; and by providing, adapting and training in the use of assistive products.

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Ghebreyesus, T. A. (2022) Rehabilitation in the context of WHO's mandate. Bull World Health Organ. Nov 1;100(11):654. doi: 10.2471/BLT.22.289236.