Guest Editorial the Origins of Community-based Rehabilitation
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In 1973 Dr. Halfdan Mahler was elected Director-General of the World Health Organization. During 15 years he initiated a large number of new policies and programmes – a clear break with those that had governed WHO earlier. Dr Mahler was deeply concerned about “the existing gross inequality in the health status of the people particularly between developed and developing countries as well as within countries; this was seen as politically, socially and economically unacceptable”(1). There was also a reaction against the health sector concentration on high-level hospital care, which at that time consumed some 90% of the health budgets in most poor countries.
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