Global Health, Faith, and Disability: Comparative Approaches to Prosthetic Care in Low-Resource Contexts

Abstract

Global health and faith-based healthcare and the intersectional relationship with disability rehabilitation are an essential and unexplored area of current healthcare delivery. This thorough review paper looks at the interplay of faith-based practices, cultural contexts, and low-resource healthcare infrastructure that shape the consequences of prosthetic and orthotic rehabilitation in the developing world. This paper discovers remarkable differences in access, quality, and sustainability of the prosthetic care services through the comparison of the available literature, case studies, and empirical data concerning many regions. Although the faith-based organizations (FBOs) offer significant provisions of healthcare services to the tune of up to 40 percent of the overall healthcare delivery in the sub-Saharan African, their contribution to the service of prosthetic and orthotic facilities can be elusive and location specific. The study establishes that 30 million people in low-income countries who are in need of prostheses only receive proper devices with 5-15 percent capacity. This paper suggests a comprehensive model of enhancing the availability of prosthetics based on contextual approaches on how to utilize the faith-based networks, cultural sensitivity, and technological advancements and how to deal with the structural obstacles in low-resource communities.