Year: 2001
Type: other
Abstract: The World Health Organization (WHO) has definedcardiac rehabilitation as the “sum of activity required to ensure cardiac patients the best possible physical, mental, and social conditions so that they may, by their own efforts, regain as normal as possible a place in the community and lead an active life”[1]. Implicit in this definition is the concept of sec-ondary prevention, which can be defined as the effort toward risk factor reduction designed to lessen the chance of a subse-quent cardiac event and to slow and perhaps stop the progres-sion of the disease process. A conceptual model of cardiac re-habilitation is depicted in Figure 1. Secondary prevention goals are embedded in the overall goal of cardiac rehabilitation. Each component of a cardiac rehabilitation program is shown by the rectangles. For exam-ple, a formal exercise program has approximately equal ben-efits for secondary prevention and rehabilitation alike. Reha-
Authors: Werner Benzer, Oldridge Nb
Language: English
Subfield: Cardiology and Cardiovascular Medicine
Field: Medicine
Domain: Health Sciences
Open Access status: green
OpenAlex ID: W1498314736