Sickness treatment or health care: Implications for head injury
- 1 March 1990
- journal article
- research article
- Published by Wolters Kluwer Health in Journal of Head Trauma Rehabilitation
- Vol. 5 (1) , 57-64
- https://doi.org/10.1097/00001199-199003000-00009
Abstract
Rehabilitation of the individual with traumatic brain injury (TBI) requires a systems approach that views the functioning of the individual as a balance among the psychosocial features of the person, the physical status of the body, and the environment in which the person behaves. This balance fluctuates across a lifetime, particularly in the first several years after TBI. The article attempts to describe the systems aspects of rehabilitation of the person with TBI by using both a sickness treatment approach and a health care approach. Suggestions for policy changes at the national level are offered.Keywords
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