Community ambulation: Environmental impacts and assessment inadequacies

Disability and Rehabilitation

Volumn 30, Issue 19, 2008, Pages 1411-1419

  Corrigan, Rosemary ^a   McBurney, Helen ^b  

^a CHARLES STURT UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

^b LA TROBE UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

Author keywords

Assessment; Community ambulation; Environment; Evaluation; Physiotherapy

Indexed keywords

BIBLIOGRAPHIC DATABASE; CINAHL; COMMUNITY ASSESSMENT; COMMUNITY BASED REHABILITATION; DAILY LIFE ACTIVITY; ENVIRONMENTAL FACTOR; ENVIRONMENTAL IMPACT; HEALTH PRACTITIONER; HUMAN; MEDICAL LITERATURE; MEDLINE; MOBILIZATION; PHYSICAL ACTIVITY; PHYSIOTHERAPY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REVIEW; SOCIALIZATION; TASK PERFORMANCE; TIME; WALKING;

ACTIVITIES OF DAILY LIVING; ARCHITECTURAL ACCESSIBILITY; ENVIRONMENT DESIGN; HUMANS; MOBILITY LIMITATION; RESIDENCE CHARACTERISTICS; WALKING; WHEELCHAIRS;

EID: 54349098307     PISSN: 09638288     EISSN: 14645165     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/09638280701654542     Document Type: Review

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