Rehabilitation services can help people with a wide range of health conditions to reduce disability, optimize functioning in their environment, and enable them to live active, functional, productive and fulfilled lives.

Health accounts can track how health systems, other sectors, and service users allocate and spend funds for rehabilitation. They can also provide invaluable evidence for strategic policy decisions. This fact sheet provides a snapshot of the demand for rehabilitation services and makes a case for why practitioners should focus on tracking rehabilitation expenditures in health accounts.