Abstract
The article examines the features of the legal status of specialists in the field of rehabilitation and determines the place of rehabilitation services within the scope of health care. Rehabilitation professionals are seen as a separate category of health professionals who, on the one hand, provide care that differs in content from medical care, but on the other hand is in many cases inseparable from medical care and is provided by rehabilitation professionals along with the medical staff. The qualification requirements to rehabilitation specialists established by the legislation are determined depending on the sphere and type of rehabilitation activity. Rehabilitation workers include professionals and specialists who work on the basis of an employment contract in the field of medical and social rehabilitation, which are: doctors of physical and rehabilitation medicine, physical therapists, occupational therapists, speech and language therapists, prosthetic and orthotic specialists, psychologists, psychotherapists, physical rehabilitation nurses, assistants to physical therapists and occupational therapists. Health care reform has led to the formation of a new system of rehabilitation services, the introduction of new approaches to rehabilitation care, improving skills and other requirements for rehabilitation professionals, which should improve the quality of such care and improve the situation in health care and social protection. The procedure for providing different types of rehabilitation care, mechanisms of interaction between specialists of different specializations and specialties, responsibility for the results of the multidisciplinary rehabilitation team, detailing the conditions for providing rehabilitation care at different levels of health care and to different categories of citizens need further study. Keywords: rehabilitation services, rehabilitation assistance, specialists in the field of rehabilitation, qualification characteristics, professional activity in the field of rehabilitation
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