LEPROSY AND COMMUNITY - BASED REHABILITATION

Mental Retardation, Poverty and Community Based Rehabilitation

A person with moderate mental retardation would, in a western country, be "diagnosed" early on in life. Consequently, such a child is likely to be sent for special education. Given the high level of job requirements, such a person is unlikely to be employed in the open market later in life. Mental retardation is one of the most frequent disabilities in most studies, mental retardation is found ...

An update on community based rehabilitation for leprosy practitioners.

During recent years we have seen quite a number of developments in the field of leprosyrelated disability. Some organisations and programmes have increasingly paid attention to individual physical needs of people affected by leprosy through, for example, prevention of disability (POD) activities included the formation of self-care groups. We see also in some parts of the world that self-care gr...

Integrating community-based rehabilitation and leprosy rehabilitation services into an inclusive development approach.

Community-based rehabilitation (CBR) has been described as a strategy for leprosy rehabilitation. Developments in CBR and leprosy rehabilitation services, including Socio-economic rehabilitation (SER) show that both approaches aim to become part of a community development process. The basic assumption is that people with disabilities will benefit most from being included in mainstream programme...

Answering the rehabilitation needs of leprosy-affected persons in integrated setting through primary health care services and community-based rehabilitation.

This article aims to discuss the strategies for answering the rehabilitation needs of persons with leprosy-related disabilities in integrated settings through primary health care (PHC) services and community-based rehabilitation (CBR). While the provision of rehabilitation services through the PHC system remains problematic in most developing countries, the article concludes that CBR programmes...

Preventive rehabilitation in leprosy.