Aims

In the term of this credit the student will have a global sight of the possibilities of coverage of the person handicapped by the rehabilitation.
The student will arrange a conceptualisation rich in the role that the rehabilitation on the health (OMS model) of a person. He can estimate the health of a population by identifying the factors extrinsic and intrinsic which damage this state. More particularly, he will study the Belgian system of assistant to the handicapped persons

Main themes

The main subjects approached to meet these objectives will be:

- Through the world population, study indicators to estimate the health of a population: the factors extrinsic and intrinsic leading to a degeneracy of the health of a population.
- In Belgium, study the existing helps for the handicapped persons, i.e. the helps granted by the federal state; by regions (AWIPH-COCOF), by Communities.

Evaluation of the health of a population via the indicators of health. What is the process leading to the degradation of the health of a population? What are the factors influencing this process? What is the evolution with court and middle term of the health of the world population? The existing processes in Belgium for landing in a degradation of the health of the handicapped person:
- helps granted by the federal State: care of health, allowances, reduction of taxes, VAT, legal helps of the person mental defective
- Helps granted by regions (AWIPH or COCOF): individual helps, of help to the daily life, the school guidance and the professional, the vocational training, put in the work in company of adapted work or in normal circuit, reception and residence, the centres of rehabilitation, public transports, the accessibility to the public buildings
- Helps granted by communities: Special and integrated education

Content and teaching methods

Will be completed by the titular professor when the courses will be attributed

Other information (prerequisite, evaluation (assessment methods), course materials recommended readings, ...)

Pre-necessary Evaluation Support Syllabus and/or book Encadrement Different Holder This course must be coordinated with the course "Psychology and handicap"

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