Publication Date
2006
248 p, ill
This is a training manual for community based rehabilitation workers based upon physiotherapist's work on a rehabilitation project in Cape Town, South Africa. The manual is aimed at trainers of rehabilitation workers who are assumed to have adequate medical knowledge. The manual is divided into the following 4 main topics: health in the community; normal body functions; conditions and treatment; management of patients. Each section contains a summary of the learning aims for the rehabilitation workers, and the teaching is based mainly on a question and answer format
Note: originally published in 1990 by SACLA Health Project
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Keywords
Disability and social diversity; children with disabilities; functional limitation: hearing; functional limitation: mobility; functional limitation: visual; persons with disabilities; Education; inclusive teaching & learning materials; diseases: communicable diseases (CD); poliomyelitis; diseases: non-communicable diseases (NCD); spina bifida; Health; issues: malnutrition; issues: maternal and child health; risk factors; systems: health information systems; systems: health workforce; treatment and prevention; Inclusion; sport leisure and recreation; Rehabilitation; community-based rehabilitation; condition specific rehabilitation
