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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.
O.T. Intervention for prevention and treatment of obesity and diabetes:
Abstract
The present article is about the experience of working in Occupational Therapy with fat and pre-diabetic people, carried out in a Family Health Center in El Bosque commune. This knowledge is applied to a program of integral intervention to pre-diabetic and fat people, subsidized by FONASA National Funds of Health and realized as a pilot experience in five different establishment of health between 2004 and 2005. For its excellent results this experience in the current year is being applied to others communes of our country.
The intervention that considers the complete attention of the pathologies before mentioned is performances by a multiprofessional team integrated by Nutritionist, Doctors, Occupational Therapist, Kinesyologist and Paramedical Assistant.
Interventions that, in the practice were developed by an Occupational Therapists member of the team of the Family Health Center and teacher from Andres Bello University, and four students making practicing in the occupational therapy career from the some establishment, who carried out individual and group interventions approximately ten months between July 2004 and April 2005.
The analysis and reflections we can observe in this paper constitute an innovative and pioneer space for the occupational therapy as a discipline, in the prevention and treatment of the chronic pathologies, and to the health promotion in the primary attention.
