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Rehabilitation and resettlement of the working adult in the U.K.

P. J. R. Nichols
- Vol. 1, Iss: 3, pp 138-143
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The article was published on 1979-01-01. It has received 6 citations till now. The article focuses on the topics: Rehabilitation.

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Toward an epidemiology of work disability.

TL;DR: This study suggests a new emphasis on social characteristics of the workplace in public policy toward disability, which currently emphasizes the "human capital" with which persons with impairments confront the labor market.
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The Vocational Rehabilitation Index: a guide to accident victims' requirements for return-to-work assistance.

TL;DR: The Vocational Rehabilitation Index (VRI) is an easily administered, seven-item, ordinally scaled assessment, developed from analysis of variables associated with early return to work in a representative sample of 194 persons who received compensation for injuries at work or in road traffic accidents.
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Vocational Rehabilitation Index assessment of rehabilitation medicine service patients.

TL;DR: In this article, the authors describe the retrospective application of the Vocational Rehabilitation Index (VRI) to 223 patients of working age and with various diagnoses referred to one rehabilitation medicine service.
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Rheumatoid arthritis: vocational rehabilitation.

TL;DR: The consequences of inflation and accelerating introduction of automation and microprocessors into industry are a shift from unskilled to skilled work, the lessening of opportunities for the unskilled worker, and growing unemployment.

Health Locus of Control Belief and Health Behavior in Patients with Job Related Injuries

TL;DR: A worker's belief that the external factors of chance or a significant powerful other may not relate to experience with previous injury on the job, the duration of previous job injuries, financial factors associated with job injury and the stage of the injury is concluded.
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Problems of disabled students.

A D Gunn
- 18 Dec 1976 - 
TL;DR: While nationally a considerable increase in the absolute number of disabled students at universities and colleges has occurred in recent years, this minority group is characterised by underachievement in the postsecondary sector of education.