how health financing practices can be harnessed to promote the delivery of rehabilitation services is limited. This document is the first WHO resource on health financing for rehabilitation. It considers current practices for financing rehabilitation services, frames
major challenges and opportunities, and offers guidance to decision-makers engaged in strengthening…
Assistive Technologies in Developing Countries
Assistive technologies enable people to live healthy, productive, independent and dignified lives, yet most people who need them are currently unable to access them. This rapid review looks at examples of existing literature on the availability of assistive technologies and efforts to make these technologies more affordable and accessible in developing countries.
Details
Publisher Name:
The Institute of Development Studies and Partner Organisations.
Publisher Website:
https://opendocs.ids.ac.uk
Publication Year:
2018
Languages:
English
Categories:
Awareness raising and advocacy, Evidence and data, Report
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