The report Towards A Global Strategy to Improve Musculoskeletal Health was co-created to address the escalating global disability and economic burden attributed to musculoskeletal health impairments including musculoskeletal conditions, musculoskeletal pain and musculoskeletal injury and trauma. Developed through a global co-design effort, the report provides a roadmap for health systems on ‘what’ can be done to improve musculoskeletal health and, importantly, ‘how’, across contexts and settings.
The report is available in 7 languages including Arabic, Simplified Chinese, English, Hindi, Brazilian Portuguese, Latin American Spanish and Swahili, and the associated paper is available in Japanese.
To access a Roadmap report please click on the relevant link below.
The Roadmap was evaluated with the global community between September 2022 and March 2023. Key findings from the evaluation are summarised in this infographic. The full evaluation report “It’s about time“, can be accessed here
Translations and evaluation were enabled by funding from: AO Alliance Foundation, Asia Pacific League of Associations for Rheumatology (APLAR), Australian Rheumatology Association (ARA), Curtin University, Pan American League of Associations for Rheumatology (PANLAR), the World Federation for Chiropractic (WFC), and the Japanese Association of Chiropractors.
Research underpinning the development of the Report includes:
Briggs AM, Huckel Schneider C, Slater H, et al. Health systems strengthening to arrest the global disability burden: empirical development of prioritised components for a global strategy for improving musculoskeletal health. BMJ Global Health 2021;6:e006045.
Briggs AM, Jordan JE, Kopansky-Giles D, et al. The need for adaptable global guidance in health systems strengthening for musculoskeletal health: a qualitative study of international key informants. Global Health Research and Policy 2021;6:24.
Huckel Schneider C, Parambath S, Young JJ, et al. From Local Action to Global Policy: A Comparative Policy Content Analysis of National Policies to Address Musculoskeletal Health to Inform Global Policy Development. International Journal of Health Policy and Management 2023;12:7031.
Belton JL, Slater H, Ravindran TKS, Briggs AM. Harnessing people’s lived experience to strengthen health systems and support equitable musculoskeletal health care. J Orthop Sports Phys Ther 2023;53:162-171.
