Developing Rehabilitation Services

Costing the outpatient rehabilitation services in Nezam-Mafi Rehabilitation Center

Objectives: One of the basic challenges of health care centers is the inflated costs of services. Rehabilitation services play a significant role in restoring people's functional ability and returning people with disabilities to society. Costing the rehabilitation services in an accurate way could sustain advisable decisions on activity based budgeting and optimal resource allocation. The objec...

Supporting rehabilitation in developing countries.

Inpatient rehabilitation services: regulatory changes.

Inpatient rehabilitation facilities (IRFs) operate in a changing environment. First was the transition from the reimbursement system of the 1980s and 1990s to our current Prospective Payment System. Along with that came the challenges of educating and re-educating staff and patients about achieving optimal outcomes within prescribed periods of time. Now the paradigm is shifting once again. This...

Rehabilitation services in disaster response

Perspectives The United Nations Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities has firmly placed disability in a human rights perspective. In the context of the Convention, disability refers to activity limitations and participation restrictions that result from the interaction of an impairment of body function or structure with environmental factors. The Convention addresses the rights ...

Developing substance misuse services in United Arab Emirates: the National Rehabilitation Centre experience

In 2001 a directive was issued to establish the National Rehabilitation Centre (NRC) to deal with the growing problem of substance misuse in the United Arab Emirates. The NRC has achieved many goals as a treatment and rehabilitation facility as well as a drug and alcohol demand reduction response centre. It is now working towards being an international centre of excellence.