PubMed · 10298888
The source did not provide an abstract. Follow the original record for more information.
Explore connections, maps & timelines
S Guyette. 1982. Documenting needs for the program plan.. https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/10298888/
Cite the original work for its findings. Save a collection to share your selection of sources.
KEEP EXPLORING
Explore the source record for details and available documents.
Statutes, regulations, and litigation are pivotal tools for creating conditions for people to lead healthier and safer lives. Law can educate, create incentives, and deter; mandate safer product design and use of property; and alter the informational, physical, or economic environment. This article defines public health law as the power and duty of the state to ensure conditions for people to be healthy and limitations on the state's power to constrain autonomy, privacy, liberty, and proprietary interests of individuals and businesses. The 5 essential characteristics of public health law discussed are (1) the government's responsibility to defend against health risks and promote the public's health; (2) the population-based perspective of public health, emphasizing prevention; (3) the relationship between government and the populace; (4) the mission, core functions, and services of the public health system; and (5) the power to coerce individuals, professionals, and businesses for the community's protection. JAMA. 2000;283:2837-2841
PURPOSE: To propose a system for the provision of comprehensive, coordinated rehabilitation services that would meet all the needs of persons with disability in a timely and cost-effective manner. METHODS: Study of the literature pertaining to features of settings available for the delivery of medical rehabilitation in developed countries; presentation of the evolution of a tertiary rehabilitation centre into an institution practicing community-oriented rehabilitation. Review of various issues and implications of integrating institutional-based and community-based rehabilitation. RESULTS: Rehabilitation settings differ in skills and resources and consequently, in the treatment, care and concern they are able to offer. It is essential to find the balance between medical, nursing and social needs of persons with disability and their requirements for skills and resources at a given time, and to provide rehabilitation, support and guidance in the setting most appropriate to these requirements and needs at the lowest cost possible. CONCLUSION: The integration of the rehabilitation institution of a region with secondary and primary care of the region, into one functional entity for the purposes of providing the needed services, would enable finding the most appropriate setting, and facilitate addressing all needs, as well as increase the availability and accessibility of comprehensive rehabilitation at an affordable cost. This could be a viable way of providing rehabilitation in developed countries of Europe, where the need for it is expected to rise in excess of the population increase.