Honorable Chair, Esteemed Delegates,

Rehabilitation helps achieve optimal functioning and reduces the impact of noncommunicable diseases (NCDs) on people's lives, health and well-being.
The Global Action Plan for the Prevention and Control of NCDs identifies rehabilitation as a key health strategy in NCD programmes to address both NCD-related functional loss and risk factors.

Reducing NCDs and their consequences requires integrated service delivery (including rehabilitation) across the three health indicators: mortality, morbidity and functioning.

Cochrane, with the support of the World Rehabilitation Alliance, calls on Member States to:

- Develop and include specific indicators for functioning and rehabilitation in the Global NCD Monitoring Framework; and

- Integrate rehabilitation into the Fourth High-Level Meeting Declaration and into national health policies for NCDs to ensure that no one is left behind.

Thank you