[Development and conceptual program in the practice of rehabilitation medicine]

The author draws attention to organizational short-comings in the development of rehabilitation in the CSSR, which are to a considerable extent due to the incorrect use of the term rehabilitation. It is used as a synonym of physiatrics, as regeneration or even recreation and as defined by WHO. Despite many satisfactory instructions and Government decrees quoted by the author, in practice the continuity of therapeutic and occupational rehabilitation is not satisfactory. The author mentions interrelations between assessment of work capacity, orthopaedic prosthetics and rehabilitation medicine. He explains the right to work ensured by the constitution with respect to rehabilitation. He expects favourable results which will ensure from the fusion of the health department and the department of labour and the department of labour and social affairs within the framework of economic reconstruction.