Hopkins Centre Collaboration with the World Rehabilitation Alliance: Health Policy and Systems Research for Rehabilitation

Posted on Monday 4th November 2024

Hopkins Centre researchers are collaborating with the World Rehabilitation Alliance (WRA), hosted by the World Health Organisation, to support the implementation of the Rehabilitation 2030 initiative, through advocacy activities.

The Rehabilitation 2030 initiative draws attention to the profound unmet need for rehabilitation worldwide and highlights the importance of strengthening health systems to provide rehabilitation. The initiative marks a new strategic approach for the global rehabilitation community by emphasizing that:

Rehabilitation should be available for all the population and through all stages of the life course.
Efforts to strengthen rehabilitation should be directed towards supporting the health system and integrating rehabilitation into all levels of health care.
Rehabilitation is an essential health service and crucial for achieving universal health coverage.

With ageing populations and an increase in the number of people living with chronic disease, rehabilitation is a priority health strategy for the 21st century that uniquely contributes to optimizing population functioning.

As part of this initiative, Professor Louise Gustafsson was co-author of an article with WRA leaders on, titled: Role and promise of health policy and systems research in integrating rehabilitation into the health systems.

Dr. Jessie Mitchell, Coral Gillet and Professor Tamara Ownsworth designed infographics and social media tiles used in an international campaign to promote public awareness of the importance of Health Policy and Systems Research for Rehabilitation.

Click here to access a downloadable version of this file.

Based on the very favourable response, WRA has translated the infographics and tiles into Italian, French, Chinese, Spanish, Greek, Arabic and Hindi, for global dissemination.