A study of the attitudes of a rural Indian community toward people with physical disabilities

Clinical Rehabilitation

Volumn 11, Issue 4, 1997, Pages 329-334

  Bakheit, Amo ^a,b   Shanmugalingam, V ^a  

^a SOUTHAMPTON GENERAL HOSPITAL   (United Kingdom)

^b Mount Gould Hospital   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGE; AGED; ARTICLE; ATTITUDE; DEVELOPING COUNTRY; EDUCATION; EMPLOYMENT; FEMALE; GENDER; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; HUMAN RIGHTS; INDIAN; MALE; NORMAL HUMAN; PHYSICAL DISABILITY; QUESTIONNAIRE; RATING SCALE; RURAL POPULATION; SOCIAL PSYCHOLOGY; SOCIOECONOMICS; SOCIOLOGY;

EID: 0030690096     PISSN: 02692155     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/026921559701100410     Document Type: Article

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