Community-based rehabilitation: opportunity and challenge

The Lancet

Volumn 374, Issue 9704, 2009, Pages 1803-1804

  Hartley, Sally ^a   Finkenflugel, Harry ^b   Kuipers, Pim ^c   Thomas, Maya ^d  

^a Institute of Health   (United Kingdom)

^b ERASMUS UNIVERSITY ROTTERDAM   (Netherlands)

^c CHARLES DARWIN UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

^d Asia Pacific Disability and Rehabilitation Journal   (India)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; COMMUNITY BASED REHABILITATION; HEALTH CARE ACCESS; HEALTH CARE POLICY; HUMAN; POLITICS; PRIMARY HEALTH CARE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SOCIAL ASPECT; SOCIAL PSYCHOLOGY; TRAINING; WORLD HEALTH ORGANIZATION;

EID: 71549151946     PISSN: 01406736     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0140-6736(09)62036-5     Document Type: Note

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