GRACE: Gender aspects in Rehabilitation of persons with Amputation in Challenging Environments
Rehabilitation of persons with disabilities requires long-term interventions, specific resources and skilled personnel. In protracted conflicts and crises, rehabilitation quickly gets challenging; collapse of infrastructure, lack of resources and personnel in healthcare and political uncertainty hamper and obstruct work in rehabilitation in conflict areas. Clinical presentations requiring rehabilitation are present and will be worsened in protracted conflicts, which causes physical and psychological trauma to the patient. There is a need of studies, guidelines and rehabilitation programs in protracted conflicts, and our study is investigating rehabilitation after amputation in different conflict areas.
Project partners: Cliona O’Sullivan (University College of Dublin), Cornelia Barth (Interntional Committee of the Red Cross, Geneva), Wolaita Sodo University (Ethiopia), WHO Collaborating Centre for Surgical Care (Mumbai), SINTEF (Norway).
Editorial:
Cornelia Barth
Meeting the needs of people with physical disabilities in crisis settings.
Bulletin of the World Health Organization 2019;97
Publication:
Cornelia A Barth, Andreas Wladis, Catherine Blake, Prashant Bhandarkard, Cliona O’Sullivan
Users of rehabilitation services in 14 countries and territories affected by conflict, 1988–2018
Bull World Health Organ 2020;98:599–614. Published September 1, 2020.
doi: http://dx.doi.org/10.2471/BLT.19.249060
Contact: Andreas Wladis
