The role of the community-based rehabilitation worker within the primary health care service of the ODI district

Introduction: There has not been agreement within the Health Care Services regarding the role of Community Based Rehabilitation (CBR) workers. The training of CBR workers continues although the process was not widely supported and the CBR worker’s function has not been clarified yet CBR programmes are included in the training of students.Aim: The aim is to identify and describe the role of the CBR workers within the Odi District Health Service (DHS) and determine whether they are fulfilling the rehabilitation arid development functions envisaged by the WHO model of CBR programmes.Methodology: Qualitative and quantitative research methods were used. These included a questionnaire; observations of the daily tasks of the CBR workers and interviews with members of the District Health Service (DHS) of the Odi district, clients and CBR workers. Open and axial coding were used in data analyses. Data from the different sources were triangulated to ensure trustworthiness.Results: The skills performed by CBR workers have produced a change in the lifestyle of the disabled people and the initiated projects are benefiting the families of the disabled people within the CBR programme as well as their community. There seems to be a break down of communication between the District Health Manager (DHM) and the supervisor of the CBR workers. A lack of communication within the DHS affects the functions of the CBR workers.Conclusion: It is concluded that, although the tasks of the CBR workers within the Odi DHS are not supported, they produce a positive impact on the quality of life of the disabled within the CBR programme. The CBR workers’ contribution towards community development, although on a small scale, proves that they operate within the World Health Organization’s (WHO) guidelines for CBR.

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Developing community-based rehabilitation services for the disabled by the primary health care approach

International Rehabilitation Medicine ◽

10.3109/03790798409166761 ◽

1984 ◽

Vol 6 (2) ◽

pp. 64-66 ◽

Cited By ~ 8

Author(s):

P. B. M. Menon

Keyword(s):

Health Care ◽

Primary Health Care ◽

Rehabilitation Services ◽

Community Based ◽

Primary Health ◽

Community Based Rehabilitation ◽

The Disabled ◽

Care Approach

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On Question of Feasibility of Community Based Rehabilitation (CBR) for the Disabled in SAARC Nations: A Journey Away from the Normative Plinth

International Journal of Physical Medicine & Rehabilitation ◽

10.4172/2329-9096.1000358 ◽

2016 ◽

Vol 4 (4) ◽

Author(s):

Dipanwita Ghosh ◽

Tarit K Datta

Keyword(s):

Community Based ◽

Community Based Rehabilitation ◽

The Disabled

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Advice to purchasing authorities

Psychiatric Bulletin ◽

10.1192/pb.17.3.164 ◽

1993 ◽

Vol 17 (3) ◽

pp. 164-165

Author(s):

Peter Urwin

Keyword(s):

Health Care ◽

National Health Service ◽

Health Service ◽

Health Care Needs ◽

Care Needs ◽

District Health ◽

Professional Advice ◽

Health Authorities ◽

Provision Of Services ◽

Second Year

We are now well into the second year of the separation of purchaser and provider functions in the National Health Service. District health authorities as purchasers of services are required to assess the health care needs of their population (NHS Management Executive, 1991a) and seek professional advice regarding both the need for, and the provision of, services. The NHS Management Executive acknowledges that local clinicians in provider units will continue to make a major contribution to this advice (NHS Management Executive, 1991b).

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Awairness Raising Experience In Efforts To Improve The Welfare Of Persons With Disabilities Through The Role Of The Community-Based Rehabilitation Group In The Student Course Work Of Community Learning Programs

Proceedings of the International Conference on Diversity and Disability Inclusion in Muslim Societies (ICDDIMS 2017) ◽

10.2991/icddims-17.2018.34 ◽

2018 ◽

Author(s):

Arni Surwanti

Keyword(s):

Community Based ◽

Community Learning ◽

Persons With Disabilities ◽

Community Based Rehabilitation ◽

Course Work ◽

Learning Programs

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Primary health care and community-based rehabilitation in the People's Republic of China

Disability and Rehabilitation ◽

10.1080/096382899297288 ◽

1999 ◽

Vol 21 (10-11) ◽

pp. 479-483 ◽

Cited By ~ 5

Author(s):

Guanghua Huang ◽

Chi Baolin,

Keyword(s):

Health Care ◽

Primary Health Care ◽

People’S Republic Of China ◽

People's Republic Of China ◽

Community Based ◽

Republic Of China ◽

Primary Health ◽

Community Based Rehabilitation

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Religion, health care, and Africa

Religion and Health Care in East Africa ◽

10.1332/policypress/9781447337874.003.0001 ◽

2019 ◽

pp. 1-24

Author(s):

Robert B. Lloyd ◽

Melissa Haussman ◽

Patrick James

Keyword(s):

Health Care ◽

Social Inequality ◽

Social Determinants Of Health ◽

Case Studies ◽

Health Inequalities ◽

Social Determinants ◽

International Health ◽

World Health ◽

The World

It is estimated that populations in Africa are afflicted with 24% of the global load of disease with only 13% of the population. This chapter provides theoretical suggestions for studying why this is so. Among these theories are area studies, Africa studies and the World Health Organization’s Social Determinants of Health Framework, which relates social inequality to the study of political and health-providing institutions. The chapter lays out the book’s three case studies and our look at the role of national and international health and secular ngo’s in helping to remedy gendered health inequalities. It lays out the MDG framework of 2000, to be discussed in succeeding chapters.

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Criminal Justice Contact and Health Service Utilization among Women across Health Care Settings: Analyzing the Role of Arrest

Women s Health Issues ◽

10.1016/j.whi.2018.12.005 ◽

2019 ◽

Vol 29 (2) ◽

pp. 125-134

Author(s):

Kathryn M. Nowotny ◽

Anastasiia Kuptsevych-Timmer ◽

Carrie Oser

Keyword(s):

Health Care ◽

Criminal Justice ◽

Health Service ◽

Service Utilization ◽

Health Service Utilization ◽

Health Care Settings ◽

Criminal Justice Contact

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Further Notes on Record Taking and Making in Maternity Care: The Case of South Asian Descent Women

The Sociological Review ◽

10.1111/j.1467-954x.1995.tb02477.x ◽

1995 ◽

Vol 43 (1) ◽

pp. 36-51 ◽

Cited By ~ 3

Author(s):

Isobel Bowler

Keyword(s):

Health Service ◽

South Asian ◽

Maternity Care ◽

Antenatal Clinic ◽

Ethnographic Study ◽

Small Scale ◽

Negative Stereotypes ◽

Service Staff ◽

Asian Descent

This paper draws on data from a small-scale ethnographic study of the delivery of maternity care to South Asian descent women in a hospital in Southern England during 1988. Stereotyped views of these women which related to their customs and culture as well as their typification as patients were commonly expressed by staff, particularly midwives. The paper examines the role of medical records and record making in stereotyping Asian women: the ways in which stereotyped views of women may affect the record making process; and how that process itself may reinforce and create stereotypes. The utility of records for ‘rate production’ purposes is also discussed. The focus of the paper is the creation of a woman's maternity records which occurs in the antenatal clinic. The transformation of stigmatised views of a client into ‘facts’ about a client is common among bureaucrats, in this setting health service staff. This process affects the client's future encounters with the bureaucracy. In medical settings records (ie the case notes) help to create, transmit and reify negative stereotypes of health service users. These stereotypes can affect the kind of care given to individual patients.

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