2. INTRODUCTION
Disability limitation is a mode of intervention
Intervention means ‘’any attempt to intervene or
interrupt the usual sequence in the development
of disease in man’’.
3. MODES OF INTERVENTION
1. Health promotion
2. Specific protection
3. Early diagnosis and treatment
4. Disability limitation
5. Rehabilitation
5. IMPAIRMENT
Any loss or abnormality of psychological or
physiological or anatomical structure or function
DISABILITY
Because of impairment, the affected person
is unable to carry out certain activities considered
normal for his age, sex etc
6. HANDICAP
As a result of disability, the person experiences
certain disadvantages in life
and is not able to discharge the obligations
required of him and play the role expected of him in
society
7. DISABILITY PREVENTION
It relates to all the levels of prevention
1.reducing occurrence of impairment
2.disability limitation by treatment
3.prevent transition to disability