World Rehabilitation Alliance (WRA) Survey – 24 December 2021 deadline
The World Rehabilitation Alliance (WRA) is a WHO global network of stakeholders whose mission is to support the implementation of the Rehabilitation 2030 Initiative through advocacy. Its work is focused on the promotion of rehabilitation as an essential health service that is integral to Universal Health Coverage and to the realization of Sustainable Development Goal 3: “Ensure healthy lives and promote well-being for all across all ages”. For more about the World Rehabilitation Alliance visit its website.
The WRA will be launched in 2022 with objectives to conduct evidence-based advocacy activities that increase awareness and demand for rehabilitation, and to strengthen networking and knowledge-sharing within the rehabilitation sector. For more about the World Rehabilitation Alliance’s objectives review its Terms of Reference.
G-MUSC has been working with WHO on disability and rehabilitation for several years and intends to be part of the World Rehabilitation Alliance.
WRA will have workstreams and workplans to achieve its objectives and WHO is seeking submissions from stakeholders that will inform those workstreams and workplans. The deadline for submissions is 24 December 2021.
G-MUSC as an organisation and yourselves as individuals or as organisations have the opportunity to submit what workstream topics or themes we think WRA should focus on, and any activities that should be included under the suggested work stream topics or themes.
G-MUSC suggests the following topics / themes and related activities.
Please take part in the survey and consider these themes and activities amongst others you may consider important.
THEMES and ACTIVITIES:
Burden of preventable disability – Create a better understanding of burden of disability on society and importance of functioning
Access to evidence-based interventions – Increase awareness of package of interventions and how they can be implemented with equity
Workforce – Ensure the wider health workforce is able to support MSK rehabilitation through upskilling the workforce on MSK health and supporting integrated, patient-centred care models of rehabilitation delivery.
Surveillance – Ensure countries have and use the tools to know their burden of disability, what resources they have and how they are using them including workloss, and importance of chronic diseases such as MSK
Service delivery – Developing and promoting integrated person-centred models of care that include all components of UHC
Equitable access – Ensuring models of care are appropriate to all settings
We need as many MSK stakeholders to respond to the WHO survey as possible to ensure that MSK Health is a major theme on the WRA agenda.
The survey is very quick and only takes 5-10 minutes to complete.
