Author: World Health Organization
Publisher:
ISBN: 9789241548052
Category : Medical
Languages : en
Pages : 452
Book Description
Volume numbers determined from Scope of the guidelines, p. 12-13.
Community-based Rehabilitation
Author: World Health Organization
Publisher:
ISBN: 9789241548052
Category : Medical
Languages : en
Pages : 452
Book Description
Volume numbers determined from Scope of the guidelines, p. 12-13.
Publisher:
ISBN: 9789241548052
Category : Medical
Languages : en
Pages : 452
Book Description
Volume numbers determined from Scope of the guidelines, p. 12-13.
Enabling America
Author: Institute of Medicine
Publisher: National Academies Press
ISBN: 0309063744
Category : Medical
Languages : en
Pages : 423
Book Description
The most recent high-profile advocate for Americans with disabilities, actor Christopher Reeve, has highlighted for the public the economic and social costs of disability and the importance of rehabilitation. Enabling America is a major analysis of the field of rehabilitation science and engineering. The book explains how to achieve recognition for this evolving field of study, how to set priorities, and how to improve the organization and administration of the numerous federal research programs in this area. The committee introduces the "enabling-disability process" model, which enhances the concepts of disability and rehabilitation, and reviews what is known and what research priorities are emerging in the areas of: Pathology and impairment, including differences between children and adults. Functional limitationsâ€"in a person's ability to eat or walk, for example. Disability as the interaction between a person's pathologies, impairments, and functional limitations and the surrounding physical and social environments. This landmark volume will be of special interest to anyone involved in rehabilitation science and engineering: federal policymakers, rehabilitation practitioners and administrators, researchers, and advocates for persons with disabilities.
Publisher: National Academies Press
ISBN: 0309063744
Category : Medical
Languages : en
Pages : 423
Book Description
The most recent high-profile advocate for Americans with disabilities, actor Christopher Reeve, has highlighted for the public the economic and social costs of disability and the importance of rehabilitation. Enabling America is a major analysis of the field of rehabilitation science and engineering. The book explains how to achieve recognition for this evolving field of study, how to set priorities, and how to improve the organization and administration of the numerous federal research programs in this area. The committee introduces the "enabling-disability process" model, which enhances the concepts of disability and rehabilitation, and reviews what is known and what research priorities are emerging in the areas of: Pathology and impairment, including differences between children and adults. Functional limitationsâ€"in a person's ability to eat or walk, for example. Disability as the interaction between a person's pathologies, impairments, and functional limitations and the surrounding physical and social environments. This landmark volume will be of special interest to anyone involved in rehabilitation science and engineering: federal policymakers, rehabilitation practitioners and administrators, researchers, and advocates for persons with disabilities.
New Hope for the Handicapped
Author: Howard A. Rusk
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Business & Economics
Languages : en
Pages : 256
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Business & Economics
Languages : en
Pages : 256
Book Description
The Disability Business
Author: Gary L. Albrecht
Publisher: SAGE
ISBN: 0803936311
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 337
Book Description
This comprehensive volume examines the `big business', such as health care corporations and insurance companies, that has grown up around rehabilitation of the disabled in the United States, and the impact that this has had on care. Albrecht discusses how the quality of care is influenced by income, income potential and insurance cover and traces how the financial growth in this industry has changed the nature of the care provided. He also presents a realistic assessment of the policy options and solutions available to a society that values equity in ensuring that quality rehabilitation services are equally available to all.
Publisher: SAGE
ISBN: 0803936311
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 337
Book Description
This comprehensive volume examines the `big business', such as health care corporations and insurance companies, that has grown up around rehabilitation of the disabled in the United States, and the impact that this has had on care. Albrecht discusses how the quality of care is influenced by income, income potential and insurance cover and traces how the financial growth in this industry has changed the nature of the care provided. He also presents a realistic assessment of the policy options and solutions available to a society that values equity in ensuring that quality rehabilitation services are equally available to all.
Vocational Rehabilitation of the Physically Handicapped
Author: United States. Congress. Senate. Committee on Labor and Public Welfare
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Federal aid to services for people with disabilities
Languages : en
Pages : 570
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Federal aid to services for people with disabilities
Languages : en
Pages : 570
Book Description
Rehabilitation Facilities for the Severely Handicapped
Author: Committee on the Severely Handicapped
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : People with disabilities
Languages : en
Pages : 76
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : People with disabilities
Languages : en
Pages : 76
Book Description
Vocational Rehabilitation of the Physically Handicapped
Author: United States. Congress. Senate. Committee on Labor and Public Welfare. Subcommittee on Vocational Rehabilitation of the Physically Handicapped
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Federal aid to services for people with disabilities
Languages : en
Pages : 564
Book Description
Considers (81) S. 1066, (81) S. 2273, (81) S. 3465.
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Federal aid to services for people with disabilities
Languages : en
Pages : 564
Book Description
Considers (81) S. 1066, (81) S. 2273, (81) S. 3465.
The Crippled and the Disabled
Author: Henry Howard Kessler
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Education
Languages : en
Pages : 366
Book Description
Examines specific and general legislation for the disabled community with specific focus on the industrially disabled, the war disabled, and the chronically disabled.
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Education
Languages : en
Pages : 366
Book Description
Examines specific and general legislation for the disabled community with specific focus on the industrially disabled, the war disabled, and the chronically disabled.
Rehabilitation
Author: Edward D. Berkowitz
Publisher: Beaufort Books
ISBN:
Category : Medical
Languages : en
Pages : 378
Book Description
Publisher: Beaufort Books
ISBN:
Category : Medical
Languages : en
Pages : 378
Book Description
Community Rehabilitation Services for People with Disabilities
Author: Orv C. Karan
Publisher: Butterworth-Heinemann
ISBN: 1483165051
Category : Political Science
Languages : en
Pages : 494
Book Description
Community Rehabilitation Services for People with Disabilities delves into the changes happening in the disability services in the United States. The book focuses on how these changes are affecting the way professionals and agencies relate to people with disabilities and their families. The text aims to provide an introductory view of the community revolution in disability services. The book is divided into three parts. Part 1 breaks down the underlying principles of the community revolution in disability services. Part 2 discusses the problems and issues in the implementation of these principles. Part 3 accounts for the changes in practices and value orientations of professionals involved in providing services for people with disabilities. The book will provide a rich source of insight for healthcare professionals, social workers, nurses, caregivers, teachers, counselors, psychiatrists, therapists, and community planners.
Publisher: Butterworth-Heinemann
ISBN: 1483165051
Category : Political Science
Languages : en
Pages : 494
Book Description
Community Rehabilitation Services for People with Disabilities delves into the changes happening in the disability services in the United States. The book focuses on how these changes are affecting the way professionals and agencies relate to people with disabilities and their families. The text aims to provide an introductory view of the community revolution in disability services. The book is divided into three parts. Part 1 breaks down the underlying principles of the community revolution in disability services. Part 2 discusses the problems and issues in the implementation of these principles. Part 3 accounts for the changes in practices and value orientations of professionals involved in providing services for people with disabilities. The book will provide a rich source of insight for healthcare professionals, social workers, nurses, caregivers, teachers, counselors, psychiatrists, therapists, and community planners.