在纳米比亚探索遵守世界卫生组织的假肢标准
Surona J Visagie1, Christopher M Likando1
1Division of Disability and Rehabilitation Studies, Faculty of Medicine and Health Sciences, Stellenbosch University, Cape Town, South Africa.
African journal of disability
|July 4, 2025
概括
纳米比亚遵守60个世界卫生组织 (WHO) 假肢标准中的14个,部分遵守24. 资金和专业发展方面的挑战阻碍了这些基本的假肢服务的全面实施.
科学领域:
- 康复医学 康复医学 康复医学
- 公共卫生 公共卫生
- 全球健康 全球健康
背景情况:
- 世界卫生组织 (WHO) 制定了"假肢和整形器械标准",以提高全球服务供应.
- 根据这些标准对当前的假肢服务进行评估,为进展提供了基准,并确定了需要改进的领域.
研究的目的:
- 描述纳米比亚的假肢服务.
- 评估纳米比亚的假肢服务与60个世卫组织标准相比.
主要方法:
- 使用了一种混合方法的探索性设计.
- 通过与管理人员,服务提供商和用户进行半结构化访谈,收集了定性数据.
- 通过与管理者,服务提供者和用户进行的跨部门调查,收集了定量数据.
- 使用内容分析和描述性统计数据,并对数据进行三角测量以评估遵守情况.
主要成果:
- 纳米比亚证明了对14个标准的遵守,对24个标准的部分遵守和对22个标准的不遵守.
- 政府指令确保在所有护理级别免费提供假肢服务.
- 确定的不遵守的领域包括资金问题,没有国家假肢委员会和数据库,以及对专业发展的支持不足.
结论:
- 基于系统的,以人为中心的方法可以指导纳米比亚和类似的国家实施世卫组织的假肢标准.
- 这项研究提供了关于在非洲背景下实施世卫组织假肢标准的首次见解.
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