A/HRC/40/32 insurance, public-private partnership for service provision, and reallocation and redistribution of existing resources. 42 The Sustainable Development Goals include an explicit commitment to achieving universal health coverage (target 3.8). When designing and implementing universal health coverage, States should ensure that it covers rehabilitation and assistive products (A/73/161, para. 55). 60. It is good practice to allocate designated funding for rehabilitation services within the State budget that are sufficient to ensure equitable access to services of the same quality for all users, including for persons with disabilities living in poverty.43 Policymakers should consider and measure the broader positive economic impact of investing in rehabilitation, such as increased participation in labour markets and education, longer independent living and fewer or shorter hospital admissions. E. Awareness-raising 61. In accordance with article 8 of the Convention, States must adopt immediate, effective and appropriate measures to raise awareness regarding persons with disabilities and their health and rehabilitation needs. Awareness-raising campaigns must adopt a human rights-based approach, promoting persons with disabilities as rights holders and not as patients or objects of charity and care. In this regard, public fundraising campaigns in support of rehabilitation services or public delivery events of assistive devices and technologies can reinforce a charity approach and a pathologizing view of disability (A/73/161, para. 69). General awareness-raising campaigns should aim to inform end users of the available services and their rights, and more personalized campaigns should aim to change the attitudes of rehabilitation professionals and families towards a human rightsbased approach to disability. F. Research and data 62. Reliable high-quality research and data are necessary for the development and implementation of effective evidence-based rehabilitation policies and programmes. Under article 31 of the Convention and Sustainable Development Goal 17, States parties are called upon to make available high-quality, timely and reliable data, disaggregated by gender, age, disability and other characteristics forming the basis for discrimination, in order to identify gaps and improve policy formulation. Such data remains scarce. 44 States should increase rehabilitation-related research, especially in priority areas identified by WHO, such as the types and impacts of different service delivery models, governance structures and financial allocation; cost-benefit analysis of rehabilitation; and facilitators and barriers to accessing rehabilitation. 45 States should also increase research on the development of affordable assistive products (Convention, art. 4 (1) (g)). Wherever possible, research should be led by researchers with disabilities, be participatory and include the views of persons with disabilities and their representative organizations in all phases. States should collect disaggregated data on people’s rehabilitation requirements and the types and quality of rehabilitation services provided. Expenditure data on rehabilitation services should be disaggregated from other health-care services. 46 States should ensure the accessible publication and systematic dissemination of research results and data so that clinical 42 43 44 45 46 Ibid., p. 122. WHO, Rehabilitation in Health Systems, p. 22. The Committee on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities has expressed concern that the income criteria for eligibility for rehabilitation services put an undue financial burden on persons with disabilities, and recommended that such criteria be eliminated (CRPD/C/POL/CO/1, paras. 45–46). WHO, Rehabilitation in Health Systems, p. 33. Ibid. WHO, World Report on Disability, p. 123. 15