A model of health environmental integration.
The spheres of health environmental integration (HEI) combine contemporary models of disease and disability and expand them with historic theories of the mind/body relationship. The basic premise is that neither the person nor his or her neurological sequelae can be characterized fully without viewing the environment as a dynamic system of which he or she and it are a part. Stroke rehabilitation based on such an integrative medical model could facilitate the health professional's understanding of how alternative treatments affect the patient's quality of life and experiences within environmental contexts.
Stineman
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Department of Rehabilitation Medicine, Leonard Davis Institute of Health Economics, Clinical Epidemiology Unit, Center for Clinical Epidemiology and Biostatistics, and Institute on Aging, University of Pennsylvania, Pennsylvania, USA.