Human resources for health: focusing on people with disabilities.

摘要

Tom Shakespeare and colleagues (Nov 28, p 1815) suggest that the training of health professionals should become more disability-sensitive than heretofore. This is certainly true, but the most significant challenge in training now facing us is not sensitising conventional health workers, such as doctors and nurses, but training a new cadre of disability and rehabilitation professionals capable of implementing the new and ambitious community-based rehabilitation (CBR) guidelines to be launched this year.