Physical therapy counts: counting physical therapists worldwide

Sykes, Catherine; Bury, Tracy; Myers, Brenda

doi:10.1186/1472-6963-14-s2-o23

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“…First, mandatory professional registration/licensing mechanisms for rehabilitation workers are absent in many countries, especially lower income countries [24, 32, 50, 54–57]. While international professional associations of PTs and OTs have been collating supply data from their national member organisations, there is no dedicated data source, no standards for data collection at national level and many countries are not represented [32, 53].…”

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“…While international professional associations of PTs and OTs have been collating supply data from their national member organisations, there is no dedicated data source, no standards for data collection at national level and many countries are not represented [32, 53]. …”

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“…Determining rehabilitation workers’ supply requirements is made on the basis of population size [32, 53, 60], other need indicators (population ageing, epidemiological variables) [24–26] or even demand indicators (rehabilitation services use, data on unfilled vacancies) [61, 62]. …”

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“…Substantial needs-based shortages of rehabilitation workers are documented and projected in many places around the globe [1, 24, 32, 53, 62, 63]. The scenario is worst in lower income countries, particularly in sub-Saharan Africa, Asia and Latin America [1, 24, 32, 53, 64, 65].…”

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“…The study and monitoring of the rehabilitation workforce, and how people with disabilities access them, has been mostly ignored by researchers and policy-makers [1, 24, 32–35]. This negligence is inconsistent with the United Nations Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities (CRPD) [36, 37] and many disability/rehabilitation initiatives [1, 8, 38, 39] recognizing that meeting rehabilitation needs of people with disabilities is an issue of health equity, human rights and social justice.…”

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Human resources for health (and rehabilitation): Six Rehab-Workforce Challenges for the century

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BackgroundPeople with disabilities face challenges accessing basic rehabilitation health care. In 2006, the United Nations Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities (CRPD) outlined the global necessity to meet the rehabilitation needs of people with disabilities, but this goal is often challenged by the undersupply and inequitable distribution of rehabilitation workers. While the aggregate study and monitoring of the physical rehabilitation workforce has been mostly ignored by researchers or policy-makers, this paper aims to present the ‘challenges and opportunities’ for guiding further long-term research and policies on developing the relatively neglected, highly heterogeneous physical rehabilitation workforce.MethodsThe challenges were identified through a two-phased investigation. Phase 1: critical review of the rehabilitation workforce literature, organized by the availability, accessibility, acceptability and quality (AAAQ) framework. Phase 2: integrate reviewed data into a SWOT framework to identify the strengths and opportunities to be maximized and the weaknesses and threats to be overcome.ResultsThe critical review and SWOT analysis have identified the following global situation: (i) needs-based shortages and lack of access to rehabilitation workers, particularly in lower income countries and in rural/remote areas; (ii) deficiencies in the data sources and monitoring structures; and (iii) few exemplary innovations, of both national and international scope, that may help reduce supply-side shortages in underserved areas.DiscussionBased on the results, we have prioritized the following ‘Six Rehab-Workforce Challenges’: (1) monitoring supply requirements: accounting for rehabilitation needs and demand; (2) supply data sources: the need for structural improvements; (3) ensuring the study of a whole rehabilitation workforce (i.e. not focused on single professions), including across service levels; (4) staffing underserved locations: the rising of education, attractiveness and tele-service; (5) adapt policy options to different contexts (e.g. rural vs urban), even within a country; and (6) develop international solutions, within an interdependent world.ConclusionsConcrete examples of feasible local, global and research action toward meeting the Six Rehab-Workforce Challenges are provided. Altogether, these may help advance a policy and research agenda for ensuring that an adequate rehabilitation workforce can meet the current and future rehabilitation health needs.Electronic supplementary materialThe online version of this article (doi:10.1186/s12960-017-0182-7) contains supplementary material, which is available to authorized users.

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Section: Resultsmentioning

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Physiotherapists' experiences on assisting physiotherapy users during the COVID‐19 pandemic with lockdown measures in Spain

Fernández‐Lago,

Climent‐Sanz,

Bravo

et al. 2023

Physiotherapy Res Intl

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BackgroundPhysiotherapists had faced a new healthcare scenario characterised by the restrictions caused by the COVID‐19 pandemic.PurposeTo explore the impact of the COVID‐19 pandemic on the physiotherapy profession from the perspective of physiotherapists working in the public and private sectors.MethodsQualitative study based on semi‐structured personal interviews with 16 physiotherapists working in public, private, or public‐private partnership sectors in Spain. The data were collected between March and June 2020. Inductive qualitative content analysis was performed.ResultsThe participants (13 women, 3 men; aged 24–44 years) had professional experience in diverse healthcare settings (primary, hospital, home, consultations, insurance companies, associations). Five categories were identified: (1) the impact of lockdown on the health of physiotherapy users; (2) managing the demand for physiotherapy services during lockdown; (3) introducing protocols and protective measures in physiotherapy consultations; (4) changes in therapeutic approaches; and (5) future expectations in the physiotherapy care model. Physiotherapists perceived that lockdown caused a decline in the functionality of people with chronic conditions, together with a reduction in the physiotherapy services. Difficulties in prioritising users considered urgent became evident, and the inclusion of prophylactic measures affected treatment duration differently depending on the care setting and the pandemic prompted the use of telerehabilitation.DiscussionThe pandemic affected the functional status of chronic physiotherapy users and made treatment time, quality of care and triage protocols visible. In physiotherapy, technological barriers need to be solved, such as digital literacy, families without resources, situations of dependency and cultural barriers.

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Potentials of Internet-Based Patient Engagement and Education Programs to Reduce Hospital Readmissions

Ketel¹

2015

Nursing Clinics of North America

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Physical therapy counts: counting physical therapists worldwide

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Human resources for health (and rehabilitation): Six Rehab-Workforce Challenges for the century

Human resources for health (and rehabilitation): Six Rehab-Workforce Challenges for the century

Physiotherapists' experiences on assisting physiotherapy users during the COVID‐19 pandemic with lockdown measures in Spain

Potentials of Internet-Based Patient Engagement and Education Programs to Reduce Hospital Readmissions

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