Wheelchair charity: A useless benevolence in community-based rehabilitation

Disability and Rehabilitation

Volumn 27, Issue 10, 2005, Pages 591-596

  Mukherjee, Goutam ^a,b   Samanta, Amalendu ^a  

^a ALL INDIA INSTITUTE OF HYGIENE AND PUBLIC HEALTH   (India)

^b Surendranath Co operative Housing Society   (India)

Author keywords

Community based rehabilitation; Hand rim propulsion; Psysiological strain; Wheelchair

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; CARDIOPULMONARY HEMODYNAMICS; COMMUNITY CARE; CONTROLLED STUDY; ENERGY CONSUMPTION; EQUIPMENT DESIGN; FATIGUE; FUNCTIONAL ASSESSMENT; HUMAN; INDEPENDENCE; INTERVIEW; LEG DISEASE; LOCOMOTION; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MOBILIZATION; PAIN; PATIENT ATTITUDE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REHABILITATION MEDICINE; TREATMENT REFUSAL; WHEELCHAIR;

ACTIVITIES OF DAILY LIVING; ADULT; CHARITIES; EQUIPMENT DESIGN; FEMALE; HUMAN ENGINEERING; HUMANS; INDIA; LIFE STYLE; MALE; PATIENT SATISFACTION; PHYSICAL ENDURANCE; POVERTY; REHABILITATION; RESIDENCE CHARACTERISTICS; RURAL HEALTH SERVICES; WHEELCHAIRS;

EID: 20744434451     PISSN: 09638288     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/09638280400018387     Document Type: Article

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