The Community Based Rehabilitation was developed by the World Health Organization in 1970s to provide the rehabilitation services to persons with disabilities.
The CBR model was inspired by the WHO’s Primary Health Care Model (PHC), which aimed to utilize the locally available resources and personnel to provide basic rehabilitation and medical services at lower cost and higher efficiency.
Thus, idea of CBR emerged at 1978’s International Conference on Primary Health Care in Alma-Ata in USSR.
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