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It is reported that the thesis section is available, to publish abstracts of postgraduate theses in the disciplinary field. Who submits your thesis, must present the title, abstract, key words (include Occupational Therapy), and a summary of 2 to 3 pages of your thesis. And `present it in Spanish, English and / or Portuguese.
Ergonomics and dissability
Abstract
New concepts in dissability emphazyse the relation between persons with Iimitations and the structure of the enviroment.
Most of the countries have developed norms to gain equality for persons with dissabilities, and chile is not an exception. Nevertheless, we know that norms and laws are not enough to reach this goal, specially due to architectonical barriers in cities,public and work places.
This article presents Ergonomics as an appropiate model to accomplish this challenges, as it recognizes personal differences and works to adapt the enviroment to them.
>From this view, Ergonomics can work with two basic concepts: accesibility and work integration. For the first, it proposes to apply the "Universal Design", suppresing barriers in physical enviroment wich can be architectonical, urbanistic, of transport or telecomunications. In work integration Ergonomics do ergonomical analysis, putting the accent on work, trying that its requirements cope with habilities of persons with dissabilities.
