The following list is by no means exhaustive, but provides you with links to some journals and publications of greatest relevance to CBR.

They are divided into the following categories:

Journals

Books

WCPT Publications

Publications from Organisations

 

Journals

You can find links to the main physiotherapy journals on the EBP section of this website. Click here to go to them. Not all of the journals provide access to full-text articles, some only provide the contents list, and others allow access to abstracts. Some operate an e-mail alert service, which e-mails the current contents to you when a journal is published. Others provide the option to pay to obtain particular articles.

Asia Pacific Disability and Rehabilitation Journal January 2002 onwards

Asia Pacific Disability and Rehabilitation Journal Archive 1998-2000 issues

Disability and Rehabilitation

International Journal Rehabilitation Research

 

Disability World [A bimonthly web-zine of international disability news and views]

WHO Bulletin (monthly journal)

 

Books

Disabled Village Children (Werner D)

Nothing About Us Without Us (Werner D)

CBR A Participatory Strategy in Africa (Hartley S) (2002)

WCPT Publications

WCPT Briefing Paper: Primary Health Care and Community Based Rehabilitation: Implications for physical therapy based on a survey of WCPT's Member Organisations and a literature review. Keynotes 1 - Changing Concepts of CBR 1 (PDF 28kb) Keynotes 2 - Changing Concepts of CBR 2 (PDF 28kb)

 

Publications from Organisations

A few key organisations publishing CBR material are listed here - also see the section on organisations.

Global-HELP Organization

                     The HELP Guide For Community Based Rehabilitation Workers: A South African Training Manual by Marian Loveday (2006)

Hesperian Foundation publications

                     Books in English and Spanish

International Labour Organisation

International Labour Organization, Unesco, World Health Organization. (1994) Community-based rehabilitation. For and with people with disabilities. Joint position paper. ILO/UNESCO/WHO

United Nations

                    The Standard Rules on the Equalization of Opportunities for Persons with Disabilities

World Health Organisation

• Noncommunicable diseases and mental health: Disability, including prevention, management and rehabilitation
• World Health Assembly resolution WHA58.23 on disability, including prevention, management and rehabilitation
• Progress report (EB 118/12) Progress report on implementation of resolution: Disability, including prevention, management rehabilitation (resolution WHA58.23)
• Disability and rehabilitation: WHO action plan 2006-2011
• DAR Newsletter Issue 1 May 2007
• DAR Newsletter Issue 2 August 2007
• DAR Newsletter Issue 3 January 2008
• Medical Rehabilitation section
• Community Based Rehabilitation
• CBR Activities
• CBR Publications

     This includes:

2nd meeting report on the development of guidelines for community-based rehabilitation (CBR)

1st Meeting Report on the development of guidelines for Community Based Rehabilitation (CBR)

CBR: A Strategy for Rehabilitation, Equalization of Opportunities, Poverty Reduction and Social Inclusion of People with Disabilities (Joint Position Paper 2004)

International consultation to review community-based rehabilitation (report, 2003)

Guidelines for conducting, monitoring and self-assessment of community-based rehabilitation programmes: using evaluation information to improve programmes (1996)

Training in the community for people with disabilities (1989)

• WHO Bulletin