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Is any wheelchair better than no wheelchair? A Zimbabwean perspective

BACKGROUND: Within a rights-based paradigm, wheelchairs are essential in the promotion of user autonomy, dignity, freedom, inclusion and participation. OBJECTIVES: This paper aimed to describe a group of Zimbabwean wheelchair users’ satisfaction with wheelchairs, wheelchair services and wheelchair f...

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Autores principales:	Visagie, Surona, Mlambo, Tecla, van der Veen, Judith, Nhunzvi, Clement, Tigere, Deborah, Scheffler, Elsje
Formato:	Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:	English
Publicado:	AOSIS OpenJournals 2015
Materias:	Original Research
Acceso en línea:	https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC5433487/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/28730038 http://dx.doi.org/10.4102/ajod.v4i1.201

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