Background: People with disabilities are more vulnerable than general population to a range of problem including fatigue, depression, and social isolation and have more limited access to health care. It is among the poorest communities that poverty breeds disablement and disablement breeds poverty, a vicious cycle that the poor can least affords. Most of the disabilities can be prevented if proper preventive and rehabilitative measures of impairments are undertaken. Aims & Objectives: To study awareness and utilization of rehabilitation services among disabled. Materials and Methods: Multistage sampling technique was used in this study. For determining target sample size, population proportionate sampling was used. All the family members who are regular resident of the village were considered for the study. Disability criteria of National Sample Survey (NSS) 2002, was used. Data was analyzed for rates and proportions. Results: Prevalence of physical disabilities was 19.46 per 1000. 64.71% disabled were unaware about the availability of the rehabilitation services and unawareness was main reason for not availing rehabilitation services. Amongst physically disabled, 65.85% discontinued the treatment and 19.51% had not taken treatment at all. Conclusion: There is lack of awareness and utilization regarding the available rehabilitation services in the country. Physical disability was found to be higher among illiterates and community having low and medium standard of living.
India has the responsibility to interpret and initiate appropriate public health action and notify those events that are of public health emergencies of international concern (PHEIC) as a signatory to International Health Regulation (IHR) (2005) and Global Health Security Agenda (GHSA). The aim of the human resource goal of GHSA is to ensure adequate numbers of trained personnel for response to a public health emergency. Epidemiologists are an essential component of the public health workforce, and in ‘ Delhi Declaration of Epidemiology’ capacity building in epidemiology was identified as an important and urgent issue. Field epidemiology training programmes (FETPs) are competency-based training and service programmes in applied epidemiology and public health for building capacity which enhances better health response in the country. The goal of FETP is to build public health and epidemiological capacity through training to create high-calibre field epidemiologists and to strengthen the disease surveillance. The proposed cascade FETP model for India in this article is to strengthen epidemiological skills and disease surveillance at every level of health system in India. Expansion of FETPs to several institutions while maintaining the quality was emphasized to meet the global requirement of public health cadre, that is, one epidemiologist per 200,000 population.
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