In recent years, the Chinese government has made great efforts to establish an insurance system for workrelated injuries and we have witnessed tremendous developments in its workers’ compensation system, provision of work rehabilitation services and research on service efficacy. These perhaps were fuelled by the enactment of the Trial Measures for Employees’ Work Injury Insurance (No. 266) in 1...

A survey was undertaken to establish the extent of provision of phase III exercise-based cardiac rehabilitation in Northern Ireland. Detailed information was obtained on patient referral mechanisms, patient assessment, the exercise component of cardiac rehabilitation and the use of outcome measures. The results suggest that cardiac rehabilitation in Northern Ireland has developed on an ad hoc b...

Background Access to rehabilitation is crucial for the realization of the right to health and a proper concern of global health. Yet, reliable information to guide rehabilitation service planning is unavailable in many countries in part due to the lack of appropriate indicators. To ensure universal health coverage and meet the central imperative of “leaving no one behind” countries must be able...

background service quality generally refers to the non-health and non-clinical aspects of the health services and mainly focuses on relationship between care provider and health customers, and the environment in which care services are delivered. because of undeniable role of service quality on the improving health results, this study aims to assess service quality in rehabilitation faculty phy...

Alcohol-related brain damage has a growing impact on service provision. Despite the benefit of therapeutic interventions and a relatively good prognosis in the context of service provision, few services exist. Both national and local initiatives are required in order to provide psychosocial rehabilitation for this marginalised group of patients.

BACKGROUND Our previous work showed that providing additional rehabilitation on a Saturday was cost effective in the short term from the perspective of the health service provider. This study aimed to evaluate if providing additional rehabilitation on a Saturday was cost effective at 12 months, from a health system perspective inclusive of private costs. METHODS Cost effectiveness analyses al...

In 1999, the National Service Framework for Mental Health1 set targets for the implementation of specialist community mental health services across England (335 crisis resolution, 220 assertive outreach and 50 early intervention services by 2003). Five years later, there were 263 assertive outreach teams employing around 3000 staff, 168 crisis resolution teams employing around 2000 staff and 41...

OBJECTIVES To assess variation in access to and use of community rehabilitation services for patients with a hip fracture, and whether this affects length of stay in hospital. DESIGN Cross-sectional study using administrative patient-level data from Hospital Episode Statistics (HES) and organisational survey data. SETTING A regional health economy in South West England served by four acute ...

L. Wielopolski, L. M. Ramirez, A. M. Spungen, S. Swaby, P. Asselin, and W. A. Bauman Brookhaven National Laboratory, Environmental Science Department, Upton, New York; Department of Veterans Affairs Rehabilitation Research and Development Service, Merit Review Program and the Center of Excellence for the Medical Consequences of Spinal Cord Injury; and Medical and Research Services, Veterans Aff...

Innovative integration of vocational rehabilitation (VR) services into the healthcare continuum for veterans with spinal cord injury (SCI) was the focus of the inaugural meeting of the “Spinal Cord Injury—Vocational Integration Program (SCI-VIP): Implementations and Outcomes” project, held in Dallas, Texas, November 29 through December 1, 2005. The project is funded through the Department of Ve...