Wheelchair service provision education and training in low and lower middle income countries: a scoping review

McSweeney, Elizabeth
GOWRAN, Rosemary Joan

Publication Date 

November 2017

This review considers education and training available to personnel who provide wheelchair and seating assistive technology to meet personal posture and mobility requirements within low and lower middle income countries (LLMIC), to ascertain where gaps in knowledge exist and identify human resource education priorities. A scoping review, mapping out existing scientific and grey literature within the field between 1993 and 2017 was conducted.

https://doi.org/10.1080/17483107.2017.1392621

Journal of Disability and Rehabilitation: Assistive Technology, Volume 14, 2019 - Issue 1

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Keywords 

Disability and social diversity; functional limitation: mobility; Education; technical and vocational education and training; Rehabilitation; assistive technologies; management (service delivery); rehabilitation professionals

Language 

English

Type of material 

text

Content type 

abstract (behind paywall)

Publisher 

Taylor & Francis Group