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    Atividade física: programas para pessoas com deficiência no Brasil
    Physical activity: programs for people with disabilities in Brazil

    Silva, Letícia Aparecida Lopes Bezerra da; Da Silva, Jessica De Lucca; Tafarello, Emanuelly Camargo; Poderoso, Rosana Evangelista; Toma, Tereza Setsuko; Barreto, Jorge Otávio Maia.
    Contexto - A Convenção Internacional sobre os Direitos das Pessoas com Deficiência define pessoas com deficiência como aquelas que possuem algum impedimento de longo prazo que pode ser de natureza física, mental, intelectual ou sensorial. A interação dos impedimentos com diversas barreiras dificul...
    Exercise, Disabled Persons, Health Promotion, Review
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    What are the main risk factors for disability in old age and how can disability be prevented?

    World Health Organization.
    In the next twenty years, the European Union will gain 17 million people over age 65 – a 30% increase – and 5.5 million more people over age 80, a 39% increase. Disability in old age is frequent and not only lowers the quality of life of its victims, but strains society’s limited resources for assi...
    Disabled Persons, Risk Factors, Preventive Medicine/organization & administration, Europe
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