Research on Status of Functioning and Disability, Unmet Needs and Service Development of Rehabilitation for People with Disabilities in Shenzhen, Guangdong, China / 中国康复理论与实践

Objective To analyze functioning and disability, unmet needs and the service for people with disabilities in Shenzhen, Guangdong, China. Methods Based on International Classification of Functioning, Disability and Health (ICF) and World Report on Disabil-ity, the theoretical framework had been constructed, and the unmet needs and service status for people with disabilities in Shenzhen in 2015 had been statistically analyzed. Results For the statistics of disability by categories, physical disability composed of 42.5%, speech disability composed of 1.5%;people with severe and extremely severe disabilities composed of 52.8%;Futian District composed of 19.7%, Yantian District composed of 2.2%;people aged 0 to 18 years composed of 17.4%, and people aged over 60 years (27.0%) were the larger group. For the unmet needs of people with disabilities, 25%needed rehabilitation therapy, 18.8%needed functional training, 23.2%needed assis-tive devices, and 32.9%had no need. For rehabilitation sevice in Shenzhen, 24.4%received rehabilitation therapy, 17.4%received function-al training, 20.4%received assistive devices, and 37.6%did not receive any service. For the barrier-free reconstruction, 4.6%needed bath-room reconstruction, and 0.7%needed internet access screen software. Conclusion The status of functioning and disability, unmet needs and service development of rehabilitation in Shenzhen had been analyzed. There was still a gap between unmet needs and services of rehabilita-tion. It recommended to construct precise services delivery based on unmet needs, improve the full coverage and quality of service of reha-bilitation.

Research on Inclusive Rehabilitation for People with Disabilities / 中国康复理论与实践

Based on international framework of rehabilitation, this paper summarized the theories and practice of rehabilitation in Shen-zhen. An inclusive rehabilitation model had been established in Shenzhen in light of international concepts of rehabilitation, in which the functions of medical rehabilitation, education, employment, assistive technology, care, right protection, accessible environment and culture had been integrated. The comprehensive services had been provided through this model and the target of inclusive development had been re-alized.