Abstract

MARTINEZ-CORREA, Denys A.  and  VALENZUELA, Alejandra. Reorganization of community-based rehabilitation front a COVID-19. Rev. salud pública [online]. 2020, vol.22, n.6, pp.571-574.  Epub Feb 04, 2021. ISSN 0124-0064.  https://doi.org/10.15446/rsap.v22n6.91436.

As main feature, the global health crisis due to COVID-19 affects the most vulnerable groups of people. The main way of contagion of this disease is the airway transmission by social contact.

Countries take steps to reduce the consequences of the pandemic and significantly improve the well-being of the people. However, they must boost measurements to support the capacity to resolve situations at the first level of assistance, mainly for the people that are so vulnerable: persons with disabilities, that get everyday worse. The Community Based Rehabilitation has been a strategy that group together collective and individual factors. The effectiveness and efficacy of the involvement of different groups, community, and local government, as well as management of the different community agents to give continuity to the health care processes, they are relevant to mitigate problems that affect, to a greater extent, the well-being of people. Besides, they strengthen actions to manage the health system.

Keywords : Community; interdisciplinary; disability; pandemic; health; integrality; quality of life {source: MeSH, NLM).

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