Disability in America: Toward a National Agenda for Prevention

by Committee on a National Agenda for the Prevention of Disabilities and Institute of Medicine

Disability in America presents a five-prong strategy for reducing the incidence and prevalence of disability as well as its personal, social, and economic consequences. Although the preferred goal is to avoid potentially disabling conditions, the authoring committee focuses on the need to prevent or reverse the progression that leads to disability and reduced quality of life in persons with potentially disabling conditions. Calling for a coherent...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0309043786
• ISBN13: 9780309043786
• Release Date: January 1991
• Publisher: National Academies Press
• Length: 376 Pages
• Weight: 1.65 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.2" x 6.0" x 9.0"