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Article: Health Promotion for People With Disabilities: The Emerging Paradigm Shift From Disability Prevention to Prevention of Secondary Conditions.
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- Physical Therapy
- Article date:
- May 1, 1999
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Key Words: Disability, Disease prevention, Health promotion.
Among some people with disabilities, there is a belief that the emphasis in health care has been directed at the primary prevention of disability rather than at prevention or reduction of secondary health conditions in people who have a disability.[1-4] Many health care professionals would agree that terms such as "wellness" and "health promotion" are often not associated with people with disabilities.[2] Teague et al wrote:
Federal efforts in health promotion and disease prevention, as described in
the 1990 Health Objectives for the Nation Report, focus on primary
prevention for the ...