This document discusses barriers and opportunities for implementing comprehensive rehabilitation strategies in post-earthquake Haiti. It notes limited rehabilitation infrastructure and disparities for people with disabilities. However, it also saw positive influences from peer mentoring and international disability rights pressure. The document recommends urgent comprehensive rehabilitation models with links between community and institution-based care, and involving people with disabilities. It advocates implementing strategies in partnership with Haiti's Ministry of Health for sustainability.
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Global Health Initiative By Prof. Ayaz Samadani, Noormuzkara
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1. Barriers and Opportunities to the Implementation of a Comprehensive Rehabilitation Strategy in Post-Earthquake Haiti Andree LeRoy, MD Cheri Blauwet, MD Department of PM&R Spaulding Rehabilitation Network/Harvard Medical School
Observations carried out through direct observation of current practitioners, interview of people with disabilities, interviews with health care providers, and exploration of DPOs
Infrastructure: Survey of HC workers revealed great discomfort in caring for PWD, lack of basic knowledge on tenets of rehab for MDs, RNs, PT/OT, limited health care providors Dispartities: Inaccessible clinics and lack of transport, stimatizaiton by health care workers, lack of education for PWD on prevention of secondary disability and undersanding own diagnosis, lack of value of preventative health
Education must involve hospital staff, community workers and rehabilitation technicians, people with disabilities themselves, and advocates from within the disability movement
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