Public health perspectives on disability : epidemiology to ethics and beyond /

Traditionally, the public health viewpoint on disability was geared toward primary prevention of disabling conditions or events. More recently, with the movement for disability rights and the emergence of disability studies, the challenge to the field has been to promote positive health outcomes in...

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Bibliographic Details
Call Number:Libro Electrónico
Other Authors: Lollar, Donald, Andresen, Elena
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:Inglés
Published: New York : Springer, ©2011.
Subjects:
People with disabilities > Health and hygiene.
Disabilities.
People with disabilities.
Public health.
Disabled Persons
Disabled Persons > legislation & jurisprudence
Public Health
Personnes handicapées > Santé et hygiène.
Handicap.
Personnes handicapées.
Santé publique.
handicapped.
physically handicapped.
public health.
SOCIAL SCIENCE > People with Disabilities.
Médecine.
Public health
People with disabilities
Disabilities
People with disabilities > Health and hygiene
Fulltext.
Internet Resources.
Online Access:Texto completo
Table of Contents:
  • Epidemiology and biostatistics
  • Social and behavioral dimensions of health
  • Disability in the health services curriculum
  • Environmental health and disability
  • Disability and health inequity
  • Disability and maternal and child health
  • Aging, disability, and public health
  • Disability and international health
  • Disability issues in health care ethics and law in the public health curriculum
  • Section 504 the Rehabilitation Act and the Americans with Disabilities Act in public health education.

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