Closing Address to the International Conference of Respiratory Rehabilitation and Post-Polio Aging Problems, Chicago, Illinois

Closing Address to the International Conference of Respiratory Rehabilitation and Post-Polio Aging Problems, Chicago, Illinois

Contributor(s):
Koop, Charles Everett, 1916-2013
Publication:
Produced: 16 October 1981
Language(s):
English
Format:
Text
Subject(s):
Disabled Persons
Health Care Economics and Organizations
Social Change
Genre(s):
Archival Materials
Speeches
Abstract:
In this speech, given a month before his confirmation as U.S. Surgeon General, Koop took up an issue with which he had first-hand experience as a pediatric surgeon: the difficulties involved in integrating persons with disabilities into society through home care instead of hospital care, and through medical and occupational rehabilitation. Koop made it his mission as Surgeon General to change public perceptions of the growing number of Americans with disabilities, to stress their dignity and potential rather than their impairments and limitations, to highlight the loss of economic productivity incurred by excluding them from employment, even as he insisted on meeting their need for special health services and government protections.
Copyright:
The National Library of Medicine believes this item to be in the public domain. (More information)
Extent:
22 pages
NLM Unique ID:
101584930X4 (See in Profiles in Science)
Profiles in Science ID:
QQBBBF
Permanent Link:
http://resource.nlm.nih.gov/101584930X4
Archival Collection:
The C. Everett Koop Papers (Profiles in Science)