What is the World Health Organization’s Package of Interventions for Rehabilitation, and why should I care?
Background: In July 2023, WHO published the Package of Interventions for Rehabilitation (PIR).
It is a series of eight modules, providing evi-dence-based guidance for rehabilitation man-agement in health conditions for which there is the highest need for rehabilitation. Each module is satellited by a methods document.
Aims: Good guidance is a prerequisite for proper and achievable care. This paper is the first of a se-ries of eight reports communicating and discuss-ing the WHO’s PIR. It is one of the first attempts to populate the PIR outside the WHO’s publica-tions.
Materials and Methods: The series consists of brief communications with a critical analysis of the presented publications. They are narratives,with the use of the term “narrative” understood as a type of a communication with liberty to raise questions and stimulate discussion but formulat-ing the opinion as balanced as possible, based on data rather than on intuition.
Results and Conclusions: In the series, we present and discuss the PIR in subsequent fields, from the perspective of physiotherapy, and highlight the roles and responsibilities of physiotherapies in the multidisciplinary, person-centred approach to functioning interventions, proposed in PIR.
Further, we present the experience of Georgia’s health system, as the first to adapt PIR at a na-tional level. The experience gained from this process, including key challenges and implemen-tation strategies, provides valuable insights for other countries.
