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Financing options for the provision of assistive products [PDF]
Assistive Technology, 2021 Having predictable, stable and adequate financial resources is essential for achieving universal coverage of essential health products and services, including assistive products. Access to such resources would enable governments and participating organizations to initiate and maintain a system for providing assistive products and associated services ...
Kiu Tay-Teo, Diane Bell, Matthew Jowett
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Dissipation-Assisted Matrix Product Factorization [PDF]
Physical Review Letters, 2019 Charge and energy transfer in biological and synthetic organic materials are strongly influenced by the coupling of electronic states to high-frequency underdamped vibrations under dephasing noise. Non-perturbative simulations of these systems require a substantial computational effort and current methods can only be applied to large systems with ...
Alejandro D. Somoza +4 more
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Societies, 2022 Aiming to compare capability across persons with impairments using and not using assistive products and persons without impairments in Bangladesh for 16 different functionings, we contrast two sets of self-reported cross-sectional data from eight ...
Johan Borg +3 more
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African Journal of Disability, 2018 In 2016, the World Health Organization, through the Global Cooperation on Assistive Technology Initiative, issued the Priority Assistive Products List which is meant to be a guide to member states of the 50 assistive products needed for a basic health ...
Christine Peta
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Network analysis of assistive technology stakeholders in Malawi
Global Health Action, 2022 Background Assistive technologies promote participation and quality of life for people with disabilities and other functional limitations. There is a global call to develop and implement policies to improve access to assistive technologies.
Emma M. Smith +5 more
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Currency and Competence of Occupational Therapists and Consumers with Rapidly Changing Technology
Occupational Therapy International, 2017 Assistive technology was once a specialised field of practice, involving products designed for populations with specific impairments or functional goals.
Emily J. Steel +3 more
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Estimates of the global workforce required for providing assistive technology: a modeling study
Frontiers in Rehabilitation SciencesIntroductionDespite being a fundamental human right, access to assistive products varies between 3% and 90% across countries. Ensuring adequate and trained human resources is a prerequisite for improving access to assistive products. To support workforce
Johanna Rosberg Petersson +5 more
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They Said: A Global Perspective on Access to Assistive Technology
Open Journal of Occupational Therapy, 2018 International experts in assistive technology from five global regions (South America, Asia Pacific, Europe, Africa, and Australia) and with affiliation to the World Health Organization (WHO) Global Cooperation on Assistive Technology (GATE) community ...
Angela K. Boisselle, Lenin C. Grajo
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Disabilities, 2023 Persons with spinal cord injury (SCI) rely significantly on the use of assistive devices (ADs) to increase independence and enhance participation. This study aimed to determine the most important ADs for persons with SCI living in Switzerland and to ...
Aylin Wagner +3 more
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Innovation in Assistive Technology: Voice of the User
Societies, 2019 This article is an open letter to assistive technology stakeholders from an assistive technology user perspective. Contemporary systems thinking in assistive technology identifies the interlinking themes of people, products, personnel, policy and ...
Ricky Buchanan, Natasha Layton
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