Socio-Economic Status and Patient Rehabilitation in India: A Community Physiotherapist’s Odyssey

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  • Pavithra Rajan Research Associate, Centre for Economic Studies and Policies, Institute for Social and Economic Change, Bangalore, India

Parole chiave:

India, low socio economic status, community physiotherapy

Abstract

Rehabilitation of patients belonging to lower socio-economic status in India can be challenging. This is due to many reasons. Some of the commonly found causes are lack of adequate health care facilities, patient overload and lack of skilled physiotherapists and lack of awareness among the patients. Given the time and resource constraints in a country like India, it is important to look for cost-effective solutions that could help in alleviation of the symptoms of these patients. One of the cost-effective ways to tackle these issues could be greater emphasis on community-based rehabilitation as opposed to institution-based rehabilitation. There are various advantages of community-based rehabilitation, taking into consideration its cost-effectiveness and time-saving strategies. It can thus be concluded that community-based rehabilitation could be viewed as an effective solution to tackle health issues affecting larger populations, especially those that lack access to institution-based health care facilities. Keywords: Rehabilitation, health care, physiotherapist, community-based rehabilitation, institution-based rehabilitation

Biografia autore

  • Pavithra Rajan, Research Associate, Centre for Economic Studies and Policies, Institute for Social and Economic Change, Bangalore, India
    Pavithra is a physiotherapist from Mumbai, India. She has her graduate degree from Canada. She is working in the field of community physiotherapy for seven years now- with three years as a graduate research assistant in Canada. She worked as the Monitoring and Evaluation Officer on a nationwide HIV/AIDS project in Mumbai, India for close to one and half years. She works as a volunteer with many NGOs in different capacties (community physiotherapist, researcher, writer, editor). Curently, she is working on a dual Government maternal and child health project at ISEC, Bangalore, India.

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Pubblicato

2014-04-02

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V. 4 N. 1 (2014)

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Short Articles

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