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The Role of Community-Based Rehabilitation in Poverty Reduction

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The Role of Community-Based
Rehabilitation in Poverty Reduction
Tahmineh Mousavi*
ABSTRACT
Over the last thirty years Community-based Rehabilitation (CBR) has emerged

Key words:

INTRODUCTION
Community-based rehabilitation (CBR) is considered as a tool for social change

* Corresponding Author: Rehabilitation Sciences Program, University of British Columbia, Canada. Email:t.mousavi@
alumni.ubc.ca

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and disability reinforce each other; each is both a cause and a consequence of the

Objective

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Community-Based Rehabilitation

and the relevant governmental and non-governmental health, education,

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Community-Based Rehabilitation and Poverty Reduction

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Models of Disability and Overlapping Concepts of Disability and Poverty

individual that is directly caused by a disease or some other health condition.

model has been criticised because many dimensions of disability, such as social,

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Capability (Capabilities) Approach

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may need more income for aid and treatment to achieve the same functioning.

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Figure 1: Poverty and Disability based on the Capability Approach

Central Human Functional Capabilities and Community-based Rehabilitation

rehabilitation.

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Central Human Implication in relation to CBR

Functional Capabilities component programmes

enhancing quality of life

survival.

for adequate shelter and basic nutrition,

good health.

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3. Bodily Integrity:

communication devices, advocating for

themselves
4. Senses, Imagination and
Thought: Education/ Social/

the senses, imagine, and

5. Emotions:
Education/ Social/

and care for us. disabilities to reintegrate into their lives

6. Practical Reason: Education/ Social/

and to engage in critical the autonomy and control over their

Education/ Social/ identify their interests and needs,

advocating for them, educating family

needed to reintegrate into society

Social
beliefs, values and interests in relation to
concern for and in relation

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9. Play: Social
leisure activities and recreational activities

quality of life and to achieve a balance in

daily life

environment:

environment, including
their caregivers to advocate for them,

society, and assisting them to access

available resources

CONCLUSION

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