Assistance Gaps in Physical Rehabilitation: Spatial Analysis of Physical Therapy Services and Users' Households in a Brazilian Capital.
Andréa Godoy PereiraAnderson Fuentes FerreiraLeila Simone Foerster MereyAlessandro Diogo De CarliAmanda Medeiros GomesMara Lisiane de Moraes Dos SantosPublished in: Revista brasileira de epidemiologia = Brazilian journal of epidemiology (2022)
An assistance gap in Physical therapy care was identified, with a restricted supply of services to meet demands and a geographic barrier, since the services are far from the users' households. Physical rehabilitation must be a priority in the country's public health, especially nowadays, where demands for rehabilitation of a significant number of Brazilians who evolved with sequelae of COVID-19 are so present.