Road to success: lessons from the Qatar Foundation Ability Friendly Program

IF 1.4 Q3 HEALTH CARE SCIENCES & SERVICES

BMJ Innovations Pub Date : 2022-04-20 DOI:10.1136/bmjinnov-2021-000928

Maha El Akoum, Neil Moors, Diedre Thompson, Ryan Moignard, Kathleen Bates

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© Author(s) (or their employer(s)) 2022. Reuse permitted under CC BYNC. No commercial reuse. See rights and permissions. Published by BMJ. INTRODUCTION: QATAR FOUNDATION’S ABILITY FRIENDLY (AF) PROGRAM History and evolution of the programme Although the AF sports programme was not officially launched in Qatar until 2019, the planning process for the development and inauguration of the programme was set in motion much earlier. Three years earlier, in 2016, the World Innovation Summit for Health (WISH), an initiative of the Qatar Foundation for Education, Science, and Community Development (QF), published a global research report on autism titled ‘Autism: a Global Framework for Action’. This report formed one of a series of reports published during the WISH 2016 summit, and 1 of 50 WISH has produced since its inception in 2013. Publication of the autism report also coincided with a powerful grassroots campaign from a group of mothers in Qatar who were collectively calling for greater inclusion opportunities for their children. The idea for a programme that would provide a unique opportunity for inclusive sports, leisure and social opportunities for children and young adults with autism came directly from the recommendations of the WISH report. For the vast majority of WISH research reports, it falls to national and regional governments, along with other care providers, to implement and take forward report recommendations. While the Qatari government set about creating an overarching national autism strategy at the national level—taking many of the recommendations from the 2016 report—the WISH team saw an opportunity to use its parent organisation, QF, as a platform to lead the introduction of abilityfriendly programmes within the community. Physical activity (PA) and participation in recreational and competitive sports in general have long been considered a positive Summary box

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成功之路:卡塔尔基金会能力友好计划的经验教训

©作者(或其雇主)2022。在CC BYNC下允许重用。禁止商业重用。请参阅权利和权限。英国医学杂志出版。简介:卡塔尔基金会的能力友好(AF)项目的历史和发展尽管AF体育项目直到2019年才在卡塔尔正式启动，但该项目的发展和启动的规划过程早在很久以前就开始了。三年前，即2016年，卡塔尔教育、科学和社区发展基金会发起的世界卫生创新峰会(WISH)发表了一份关于自闭症的全球研究报告，题为《自闭症:全球行动框架》。本报告是WISH 2016峰会期间发布的一系列报告之一，也是WISH自2013年成立以来发布的50份报告中的一份。自闭症报告的发表也恰逢卡塔尔一群母亲发起了一场强有力的基层运动，她们集体呼吁为自己的孩子提供更多的包容机会。为患有自闭症的儿童和青年提供包容性运动、休闲和社交机会的独特机会方案的想法直接来自世界自闭症愿望报告的建议。对于绝大多数WISH研究报告而言，落实和推进报告建议的任务落在了国家和地区政府以及其他保健提供者的肩上。卡塔尔政府着手在国家层面制定一项国家孤独症总体战略，采纳了2016年报告中的许多建议。与此同时，WISH团队看到了一个机会，利用其母组织QF作为一个平台，领导在社区内引入有利于能力的规划。体育活动(PA)和参与娱乐和竞技体育一直被认为是一个积极的总结框

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期刊介绍： Healthcare is undergoing a revolution and novel medical technologies are being developed to treat patients in better and faster ways. Mobile revolution has put a handheld computer in pockets of billions and we are ushering in an era of mHealth. In developed and developing world alike healthcare costs are a concern and frugal innovations are being promoted for bringing down the costs of healthcare. BMJ Innovations aims to promote innovative research which creates new, cost-effective medical devices, technologies, processes and systems that improve patient care, with particular focus on the needs of patients, physicians, and the health care industry as a whole and act as a platform to catalyse and seed more innovations. Submissions to BMJ Innovations will be considered from all clinical areas of medicine along with business and process innovations that make healthcare accessible and affordable. Submissions from groups of investigators engaged in international collaborations are especially encouraged. The broad areas of innovations that this journal aims to chronicle include but are not limited to: Medical devices, mHealth and wearable health technologies, Assistive technologies, Diagnostics, Health IT, systems and process innovation.