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Community Planning for Rehabilitation

Community Planning for Rehabilitation '4 Number 7 for Community Planning Rehabilitation New Haven WALTER WENKERT, M.P.H. Executive Secretary, Tuberculosis and Health Association of the New Haven, Conn. Area, COMMUNITY planning for health is a difficult art, perhaps more praised than practised. Rehabilitation is often a neglected aspect of our planning even in areas where more traditional health concerns are receiving attention. When we concern ourselves with the handicapped we can gain the productivity and full citizenship of some of our neighbors who now are dependents of the community. We also gain the opportunity to cross the artificial boundary lines of health, recreation, social work, group work that foreshorten the scope of much of our planning. Our aim must be to help the handicapped individual attain the highest degree of social determination and social usefulness, or more simply, independence. The official definition says it in a more academic fashion: "Rehabilitation is the restoration of the handicapped to the fullest physical, mental, social, vocational and economic usefulness of which they are capable." I Our methods must then involve the disciplines that can contribute to that end. It will not be of any help to use a broad concept and a narrow application. The rehabilitation http://www.deepdyve.com/assets/images/DeepDyve-Logo-lg.png American Journal of Public Health American Public Health Association

Community Planning for Rehabilitation

American Journal of Public Health , Volume 42 (7) – Jul 1, 1952

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'4 Number 7 for Community Planning Rehabilitation New Haven WALTER WENKERT, M.P.H. Executive Secretary, Tuberculosis and Health Association of the New Haven, Conn. Area, COMMUNITY planning for health is a difficult art, perhaps more praised than practised. Rehabilitation is often a neglected aspect of our planning even in areas where more traditional health concerns are receiving attention. When we concern ourselves with the handicapped we can gain the productivity and full citizenship of some of our neighbors who now are dependents of the community. We also gain the opportunity to cross the artificial boundary lines of health, recreation, social work, group work that foreshorten the scope of much of our planning. Our aim must be to help the handicapped individual attain the highest degree of social determination and social usefulness, or more simply, independence. The official definition says it in a more academic fashion: "Rehabilitation is the restoration of the handicapped to the fullest physical, mental, social, vocational and economic usefulness of which they are capable." I Our methods must then involve the disciplines that can contribute to that end. It will not be of any help to use a broad concept and a narrow application. The rehabilitation

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Published: Jul 1, 1952

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