/PRNewswire/ The rehabilitation equipment market size reached USD 14.10 Billion in 2021 and is expected to register a CAGR of 6.0% during the forecast.
World Health Organization (WHO) had a 4-day mission to Azerbaijan to provide technical support in scaling-up access to Rehabilitation and Assistive Technology (AT) products and services. The objectives of the mission were
SINTEF to head global WHO study
SINTEF to head global WHO study
What assistive technologies are the world’s elderly and disabled using? And what hidden needs does this group have? SINTEF has been contracted by the World Health Organisation (WHO) to find out.
The project ‘I hear you’, are carried out in Tanzania. Here, researchers are using games technology and adapted headphones to screen people for hearing problems. Photo: Tone Øderud/SINTEF:
“Obtaining assistive technologies for all those that need them is key to achieving many of the UN’s Sustainable Development Goals, such as ‘Good Health and Well-Being for All’”, says health researcher Arne Henning Eide at SINTEF.