ABSTRACT
This chapter provides the major world rehabilitation initiative in under-resourced countries. It describes two broad strategies: public and preventive health approaches to reducing the need for neuropsychological rehabilitation and, new approaches to service delivery and design. The chapter provides the general factors and approaches to service delivery relevant to providing neuropsychological rehabilitation where resources are limited or non-existent. Some of these are at a strategic or political level, for example the World Health Organization's (WHO's) Community-based Rehabilitation Initiative. Throughout most of the world neuropsychological rehabilitation, as understood in well-resourced countries. Most people with injuries or illnesses affecting their brains have little or no access to basic education or support, let alone access to qualified therapeutic intervention or neuropsychological rehabilitation. WHO has developed an initiative called Community-Based Rehabilitation (CBR) to address this lack of rehabilitation for people with disabilities throughout the world.
