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  • Public Health
  • Health Workforce Studies
  • Rehabilitation Sciences

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  • Rising functional impairments necessitate increased demand for rehabilitation services.
  • Effective health system planning requires understanding rehabilitation workforce distribution.
  • Brazil's Unified Health System faces challenges in meeting rehabilitation needs.

Purpose of the Study:

  • To analyze the spatial and temporal distribution of physical therapists, speech therapists, psychologists, and occupational therapists.
  • To examine workforce dispersion across different care tiers (Primary, Specialized, Hospital Health Care) in Brazil.
  • To identify regional variations in rehabilitation professional density from 2007 to 2020.

Main Methods:

  • Ecological time series study utilizing data from the National Register of Health Establishments (2007-2020).
  • Calculation of professional density per 10,000 inhabitants for Brazil and its five regions.
  • Joinpoint regression model applied to analyze temporal trends in professional density.

Main Results:

  • In 2020, psychologists, speech therapists, and occupational therapists were concentrated in Specialized Health Care; physical therapists in Hospital Health Care.
  • Regional disparities were evident: Northeast had highest Primary Health Care density, South led in Specialized Health Care, Southeast in Hospital Health Care.
  • Significant workforce growth observed across all categories, particularly occupational therapy in hospital care (AAPC: 30.8%).

Conclusions:

  • Public health policies successfully expanded the rehabilitation workforce across all care levels and regions in Brazil (2007-2020).
  • Emerging regional disparities and professional densities reflect patterns seen in low-income countries.
  • Continued monitoring and strategic planning are crucial to address workforce distribution challenges.