The development of a global chiropractic rehabilitation competency framework by the World Federation of Chiropractic

Pierre Côté,Silvano Mior,Richard Nicol,Richard Brown,Deborah Sutton

doi:10.1186/s12998-019-0249-8

Abstract

The World Health Organization (WHO), in its “Rehabilitation 2030 A Call for Action”, identified the need to strengthen rehabilitation in health systems to meet the growing demands of current and future populations. Greater access to rehabilitation services is required to secure the achievement of the United Nation’s third Sustainable Development Goal, “Ensure healthy lives and promote well-being for all at all ages”. To support this mandate, WHO issued a call for non-governmental organizations, associations and institutions to share their rehabilitation-related competency frameworks which will be used to construct a global rehabilitation competency framework. In response to this call, the World Federation of Chiropractic (WFC) developed a chiropractic rehabilitation competency framework. In this article, we present the chiropractic rehabilitation competency framework that will contribute to the development of the global framework in support of WHO’s strategic planning for rehabilitation. The goal of WHO’s strategic planning is to improve the integration and support of multi-disciplinary rehabilitation and establishing opportunities for global networks and partnerships in rehabilitation.

Highlights

An increasing unmet need for rehabilitation exists globally as a consequence of the rising prevalence of non-communicable diseases and injuries and the ageing population [1]
Development of the framework The Secretary-General of the World Federation of Chiropractic (WFC) invited the Chair of the WFC DRC to respond to the World Health Organization (WHO) call for rehabilitation competency frameworks
Overall, we have presented a chiropractic rehabilitation framework consisting of three domains: basic concepts of rehabilitation and disability; legal, regulatory and ethical components; and, rehabilitation management of disability and other health conditions

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Introduction

An increasing unmet need for rehabilitation exists globally as a consequence of the rising prevalence of non-communicable diseases and injuries and the ageing population [1]. While health plays a role in all 17 of the United Nations’ Sustainable Development Goals (SDG), the provision of rehabilitation services is necessary for the achievement of the third SDG “Ensure healthy lives and promote well-being for all at all ages” [1]. There are significant concerns about the ability to access adequate rehabilitation services in several regions of the world. In February 2017, the World Health Organization (WHO) launched its “Rehabilitation 2030 A Call for Action” to: “1) draw attention to the increasing needs for rehabilitation; 2) highlight the role of rehabilitation in achieving the SDGs; 3) and call for coordinated and

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