What is the World Health Organization’s Package of Interventions for Rehabilitation, and why should I care?

Background
In July 2023, WHO published the Package of Interventions for Rehabilitation (PIR). It is a series of eight modules, providing evidence-based guidance for rehabilitation management in health conditions for which there is the highest need for rehabilitation. Each module is satellited by a methods document.

Aims
Good guidance is a prerequisite for proper and achievable care. This paper is the first of a series of eight reports communicating and discussing the WHO’s PIR. It is one of the first attempts to populate the PIR outside the WHO’s publications. Materials and Methods: The series consists of brief communications with a critical analysis of the presented publications. They are narratives, with the use of the term “narrative” understood as a type of a communication with liberty to raise questions and stimulate discussion but formulating the opinion as balanced as possible, based on data rather than on intuition

Results and Conclusions
In the series, we present and discuss the PIR in subsequent fields, from the perspective of physiotherapy, and highlight the roles and responsibilities of physiotherapies in the multidisciplinary, person-centred approach to functioning interventions, proposed in PIR. Further, we present the experience of Georgia’s health system, as the first to adapt PIR at a national level. The experience gained from this process, including key challenges and implementation strategies, provides valuable insights for other countries.