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2nd Edition: Rehabilitation in Health Systems, Rehabilitation Needs and Innovative Rehabilitation Programs

A special issue of International Journal of Environmental Research and Public Health (ISSN 1660-4601). This special issue belongs to the section "Health Care Sciences & Services".

Deadline for manuscript submissions: closed (31 August 2023) | Viewed by 3667

Special Issue Editors

Prof. Dr. Christoph Gutenbrunner

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Department of Rehabilitation Medicine, Hannover Medical School, 30625 Hanover, Germany
Interests: clincal rehabilitation; rehabilitation systems research; rehabilitation service assessment; pain; muscuoloskeletal conditions; rehabilitation outcomes research
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Dr. Boya Nugraha

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Department of Rehabilitation Medicine, Hannover Medical School, 30625 Hanover, Germany
Interests: rehabilitation systems research; rehabilitation service assessment; pain mechanism; role of immune system in rehabilitation; rehabilitation outcomes research

Special Issue Information

Dear Colleagues,

The number of people who are in need of rehabilitation worldwide is constantly increasing. At the same time, the implementation of rehabilitation services in health systems in many parts of the world is still scarce, and in many cases, rehabilitation needs are not covered by corresponding services. Additionally, in some countries with highly developed health systems, specific user groups are neglected in terms of access to specific rehabilitation services. Therefore, advances in medicine, including progress in rehabilitation needs and strategies, should be based on scientific research.

This Special Issue of IJERPH, entitled “Rehabilitation in Health Systems, Rehabilitation Needs, and Innovative Rehabilitation Programs’’, has been successful so far in that 9 papers have been published with highly relevant contributions to the topic. In order to continue publishing research on the latest advances in the field, this Special Issue was reopened with a deadline of 31 August 2023. Similar to the first Special Issue, scientific articles with new information on the integration of rehabilitation in health systems; rehabilitation needs; as well as the outcomes of rehabilitation programs are welcome. As rehabilitation is an emerging field, a number of methodological challenges must be faced; therefore, conceptual and methodological papers are also welcome. As there are still significant research gaps in rehabilitation care in low- and lower-middle-income countries, we particularly invite articles that cover concepts and innovation in such settings, e.g., on rehabilitation in primary care and community-based rehabilitation as well as papers on the situation of vulnerable groups and rare diseases.

Prof. Dr. Christoph Gutenbrunner
Dr. Boya Nugraha
Guest Editors

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Submitted manuscripts should not have been published previously, nor be under consideration for publication elsewhere (except conference proceedings papers). All manuscripts are thoroughly refereed through a single-blind peer-review process. A guide for authors and other relevant information for submission of manuscripts is available on the Instructions for Authors page. International Journal of Environmental Research and Public Health is an international peer-reviewed open access monthly journal published by MDPI.

Please visit the Instructions for Authors page before submitting a manuscript. The Article Processing Charge (APC) for publication in this open access journal is 2500 CHF (Swiss Francs). Submitted papers should be well formatted and use good English. Authors may use MDPI's English editing service prior to publication or during author revisions.

Keywords

  • rehabilitation needs
  • innovative rehabilitation concepts
  • implementation of rehabilitation services and programs
  • rehabilitation in primary care
  • community-based rehabilitation
  • vulnerable groups

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Exploring Rehabilitation Provider Experiences of Providing Health Services for People Living with Long COVID in Alberta
by Sidney Horlick, Jacqueline A. Krysa, Katelyn Brehon, Kiran Pohar Manhas, Katharina Kovacs Burns, Kristine Russell, Elizabeth Papathanassoglou, Douglas P. Gross and Chester Ho
Int. J. Environ. Res. Public Health 2023, 20(24), 7176; https://doi.org/10.3390/ijerph20247176 - 13 Dec 2023
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Background: COVID-19 infection can result in persistent symptoms, known as long COVID. Understanding the provider experience of service provision for people with long COVID symptoms is crucial for improving care quality and addressing potential challenges. Currently, there is limited knowledge about the provider [...] Read more.
Background: COVID-19 infection can result in persistent symptoms, known as long COVID. Understanding the provider experience of service provision for people with long COVID symptoms is crucial for improving care quality and addressing potential challenges. Currently, there is limited knowledge about the provider experience of long COVID service delivery. Aim: To explore the provider experience of delivering health services to people living with long COVID at select primary, rehabilitation, and specialty care sites. Design and setting: This study employed qualitative description methodology. Semi-structured interviews were conducted with frontline providers at primary care, rehabilitation, and specialty care sites across Alberta. Participants were interviewed between June and September 2022. Method: Interviews were conducted virtually over zoom, audio-recorded, and transcribed with consent. Iterative inductive qualitative content analysis of transcripts was employed. Relationships between emergent themes were examined for causality or reciprocity, then clustered into content areas and further abstracted into a priori categories through their interpretive joint meaning. Participants: A total of 15 participants across Alberta representing diverse health care disciplines were interviewed. Results: Main themes include: the importance of education for long COVID recognition; the role of symptom acknowledgement in patient-centred long COVID service delivery; the need to develop recovery expectations; and opportunities for improvement of navigation and wayfinding to long COVID services. Conclusions: Provider experience of delivering long COVID care can be used to inform patient-centred service delivery for persons with long COVID symptoms. Full article
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Prevention Aiming at Functioning—Describing Prevention in the Context of Rehabilitation: A Discussion Paper
by Christoph Gutenbrunner, Boya Nugraha and Thorsten Meyer
Int. J. Environ. Res. Public Health 2023, 20(7), 5399; https://doi.org/10.3390/ijerph20075399 - 04 Apr 2023
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The widely accepted model of prevention, including primary, secondary and tertiary prevention, focuses predominantly on diseases. The WHO provides a comprehensive model of health conceptualized on the basis of the International Classification of Functioning, Disability and Health (ICF). This paper develops a conceptual [...] Read more.
The widely accepted model of prevention, including primary, secondary and tertiary prevention, focuses predominantly on diseases. The WHO provides a comprehensive model of health conceptualized on the basis of the International Classification of Functioning, Disability and Health (ICF). This paper develops a conceptual description of prevention aimed at functioning on the basis of the ICF model. Starting from the ICF-based conceptual descriptions of rehabilitation as a health strategy, a conceptual description of functioning prevention has been developed. Prevention aiming at functioning is the health strategy that applies approaches to avoid or reduce risks of impairing bodily functions and structures, activity limitations and participation restrictions; to strengthen the resources of the person; to optimize capacity and performance; to prevent impairments of bodily functions and structures; to prevent activity limitations and participation restrictions; to reduce contextual risk factors and barriers, including personal and environmental factors; to promote and strengthen contextual facilitators, with the goal of enabling people with impairments and people at risk of disability; and to maintain or improve the level of functioning in interactions with the environment. The proposed concept widens the scope of prevention to all aspects of functioning, including contextual factors. Full article
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