title: The World Report on Disability: a challenge for rehabilitation medicine.
abstract: To analyze the life situation of people with disabilities and to summarize the evidence of measures to support their participation, the World Health Assembly requested the World Health Organization to produce a World Report on Disability. This article highlights some of the main contents of the World Report on Disability, with a special focus on the rehabilitation chapter. It starts by presenting epidemiologic findings on the global disability prevalence, views on the role of rehabilitation medicine, discrepancies between met and unmet needs, and challenges for the quality of rehabilitation services and ends with an outlook on the report's recommendations and efforts toward their implementation.
authors.affiliation: From the Department of Rehabilitation Medicine, Hannover Medical School, Hannover, Germany (MB, CG); Department of Health Sciences and Health Policy, University of Lucerne, Lucerne, Switzerland (PvG); Swiss Paraplegic Research, Nottwil, Switzerland (PvG); and Rehabilitation Hospital San Pancrazio, Arco, Trento, Italy (AG).
authors.forename: Matthias
authors.initials: M
authors.lastname: Bethge
authors.forename: Per
authors.initials: P
authors.lastname: von Groote
authors.forename: Alessandro
authors.initials: A
authors.lastname: Giustini
authors.forename: Christoph
authors.initials: C
authors.lastname: Gutenbrunner
mesh_terms: D004185:Disability Evaluation; D006233:Persons with Disabilities / Q000534:rehabilitation* / Q000706:statistics & numerical data*; D019317:Evidence-Based Medicine; D005260:Female; D014943:Global Health; D018166:Health Care Reform; D006287:Health Planning Guidelines; D006291:Health Policy; D006801:Humans; D008297:Male; D020380:Needs Assessment; D010810:Physical and Rehabilitation Medicine / Q000458:organization & administration*; D011050:Policy Making; D058028:Research Report; D035862:Vulnerable Populations / Q000706:statistics & numerical data; D014944:World Health Organization