Advantages of Community Based Rehabilitation in Pakistan

Abstract

Aims: The aim of this study is to develop awareness of community-based rehabilitation for easy assessment
of community-based problems and its effectiveness regarding disabled cases.
Methods: A literature review was conducted on Medline, Springer link, Google scholar, etc. to obtain published
articles on the “role of community-based rehabilitation in Pakistan,†“Effectiveness of community-based
rehabilitation†and “Different ways of community-based rehabilitation in Pakistan.†The articles and other
documents were then summarized to assess the awareness and effectiveness of community-based rehabilitation
in Pakistan.
Results: The community-based rehabilitation is a community driven multi-sector gross root system, which
considers that "million of disable people have a right to lead a good life get benefits like equal opportunities,
better quality of life, social and economic integration, medical care, education Clearly community-based
rehabilitation served many challenges and to ease them in a creative imaginative solutions. So we needed to
establish the community-based rehabilitation in Pakistan for the improvement the status of our society.
Recommendations/Conclusion: It is suggested to promote and practice community-based rehabilitation system
in Pakistan, being one of developing countries to provide equal opportunities and non-discriminative environment
for the disabled people as independent and acceptable individual who will reduce the economic burden of the
country.