Community-based rehabilitation: the generalized model

This article presents an overview of a generalized approach to rehabilitati on services which have come to be known as community-based rehabilitation ( CBR). The various administrative and government organizations that may be i nvolved in the delivery of rehabilitation services are identified. Specific attention is given to the various forms of medical referral systems that m ight exist. In general, rehabilitation services an provided at the communit y level but more difficult cases. which require more sophisticated approach es, are referred to institutions more closely allied to a central governmen t. This referral system also gives the disabled person access to more speci alized personnel and services. The sources of information in this article c onsist of fundamental and formative primary references from documentation p rovided by the World Health Organization (WHO). These sources provide a val uable set of historical documents detailing the idealized concept of CBR.