Handicapped People
Mostrando 25-36 de 36 artigos, teses e dissertações.
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25. Estratégias de recursos humanos para incluir a pessoa portadora de deficiência no mercado de trabalho
The opening of the job market to the physically impaired, through the recent passing of specific legislation, now obliges Brazilian companies to adapt themselves to receive these people, respect their right to work and guarantee accessibility, allowing them to become and feel more independent and productive to society. The present study analyzes the strategi
IBICT - Instituto Brasileiro de Informação em Ciência e Tecnologia. Publicado em: 13/03/2003
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26. Taking care for a mental handicapped son: clearing up parents experiences of their being-with-the-son. / "Cuidando do filho com deficiência mental: desvelamentos de viviências de pais no seu ser-com-o-filho"
This work emerged from my disquiet about the meaning given by parents upon caring for a mental handicapped son. In our society, handicapped people are often labeled as inferior, abnormal and suffer several forms of prejudice, many of them based on misunderstanding reasons about their real capacities. The comprehension of the meaning attributed by parents upo
Publicado em: 2003
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27. Terapeuta ocupacional: construÃÃo de uma identidade profissional
This research aims at studying the social meaning of Occupational Therapy and the role of occupational therapists. The theory of social representations serves as a guideline for this study, as we understand that the cummunication between occupational therapists and their patients is filled with conceptions from occupational therapy which can, in turn, influe
Publicado em: 2003
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28. Los circuitos del agua y la higiene urbana en la ciudad de Cartagena a comienzos del siglo XX
Throughout its history, Cartagena de Indias, a seaport in the Colombian Caribbean, has been handicapped for not offering salubrious conditions to its people and visitors. The lack of an aqueduct and a sewerage system was an impairment to progress. For nearly forty years (1890-1930) these problems have caused a myriad of medical discourses formulated by scien
História, Ciências, Saúde-Manguinhos. Publicado em: 2000-10
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29. Bianca : o ser simbolico : para alem dos limites da deficiencia mental
The main purpose of this study is to emphasize in the life of the mentally handicapped subject the importance of culture, the ability to attribute meaning to the world (objects, people and words) and the history of social life. One can glimpse a possibility for reducing the barrier that that separates the normal and the pathological, if we acknowledge that t
Publicado em: 2000
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30. Dança em cadeira de rodas : os sentidos da dança como linguagem não-verbal
This study focuses on modern dance for physically disable people, a modality in expansion in Brazil and in the world, with the objective of discussing and justifying it as an area of knowledge of Physical Education and Dance. The aims of this research are: (1) to know the meaning of dance to physically disable people (pdtp) through the sense-relationships de
Publicado em: 1998
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31. De deficiente a trabalhador: reabilitação profissional na perspectiva da pessoa com deficiência - um estudo de caso.
Vocational Rehabilitation Programs for people with disability have been considered important, contributing for their insertion in the labour market. On the other hand they are targets of criticism due to this kind of practice, being some times authoritarian, paternalist and segregational. An analysis of such programs reveals importance because of this ambiva
Publicado em: 1998
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32. Avaliação motora para a pessoa deficiente mental nas APAEs da região de Campinas-SP : um estudo de caso
The present study examined the models used by Adaptated Physical Education professionals for the evaluation of mentally handicapped people at the Associations of Parents and Friends of Exceptionals (APAEs) located in the region of Campinas - SP and also verified whether Physical Education was taken into consideration in mentally handicapped care programs. Th
Publicado em: 1997
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33. Young mentally handicapped adults in three London boroughs: prevalence and degree of disability.
A survey of 282 young adults, mentally handicapped on an administrative definition, was undertaken in th London Boroughs of Hounslow, Hammersmith, and Ealing between October 1978 and April 1980. The prevalence of mental handicap in the age group born between 1958 and 1963 was calculated, and variations were shown between the three boroughs and within the bor
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34. Mortality in relation to the functional capacities of people with disabilities living at home.
The mortality experienced by a group of 1534 impaired people identified by means of a census-type survey of all households in the City of Canterbury is related to the degree of difficulty in carrying out selected self-care activities as reported by the impaired people. Although not entirely consistent, the findings in relation to people in their own homes ag
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35. Sterilisation of incompetent mentally handicapped persons: a model for decision making.
Doctors are regularly confronted with requests for sterilisation of mentally handicapped people who cannot give consent for themselves. They ought to act in a medical vacuum because there doesn't exist a consensus about a model for decision making on this matter. In this article a model for decision making is proposed, based on a review of the literature and
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36. Health and re-employment in a two year follow up of long term unemployed.
STUDY OBJECTIVE--The aim was to examine re-employment and changes in health during a two year follow up of a representative sample of long term unemployed. DESIGN--This was a cross sectional study and a two year follow up. Health was measured by psychometric testing, Hopkins symptom checklist, General health questionnaire, and medical examination. Health rel