Developing human rights based indicators to support country monitoring of rehabilitation services and programmes for people with disabilities: a study protocol

BMC International Health and Human Rights

Jerome Bickenbach¹  Dimitrios Skempes² 

[1] Department of Health Sciences and Health Policy, University of Lucerne and Swiss Paraplegic Research, Guido A. Zaech Institute (GZI), Nottwil, CH-6207, Switzerland;Human Rights in Patients Care Program, Association of Schools of Public Health in the European Region (ASPHER), Brussels, Belgium

关键词: Performance assessment;    Accountability;    Indicators;    Human rights;    Rehabilitation;    Health services for persons with disabilities;   

Others  :  1228171
DOI  :  10.1186/s12914-015-0063-x

 received in 2015-07-31, accepted in 2015-09-11,  发布年份 2015

【 摘 要 】

Background

Rehabilitation care is fundamental to health and human dignity and a human right enshrined in the United Nations Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities. The provision of rehabilitation is important for reducing the need for formal support and enabling persons with disabilities to lead an independent life. Increasingly scholars and advocacy groups voice concerns over the significant barriers facing people with disabilities in accessing appropriate and quality rehabilitation. A growing body of research highlights a “respond-need” gap in the provision of rehabilitation and assistive technologies and underscore the lack of indicators for assessing performance of rehabilitation systems and monitoring States compliance with human rights standards in rehabilitation service planning and programming. While research on human rights and health monitoring has increased exponentially over the last decade far too little attention has been paid to rehabilitation services. The proposed research aims to reduce this knowledge gap by developing a human rights based monitoring framework with indicators to support human rights accountability and performance assessment in rehabilitation.

Methods/Design

Concept mapping, a stakeholder-driven approach will be used as the core method to identify rights based indicators and develop the rehabilitation services monitoring framework. Concept mapping requires participants from various stakeholders groups to generate a list of the potential indicators through on line brainstorming, sort the indicators for conceptual similarity into clusters and rate them against predefined criteria. Multidimensional scaling and hierarchical cluster data analysis will be performed to develop the monitoring framework while bridging analysis will provide useful insights about patterns of agreement or disagreement among participants views on indicators.

Discussion

This study has the potential to influence future practices on data collection and measurement of compliance with human rights standards in rehabilitation service delivery and organization. The development of a valid and universally applicable set of indicators will have a profound impact on the design and implementation of evidence informed disability policies and programs as it can support countries in strengthening performance measurement through documentation of comparative information on rehabilitation care systems. Most importantly, the resulting indicators can be used by disabled people’s organizations as well as national and international institutions to define a minimal standard for monitoring and reporting progress on the implementation of the Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities in the area of rehabilitation.

【 授权许可】

   
2015 Skempes and Bickenbach.

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