{"title":"History of Occupational Therapy in Brazil: Inequalities, Advances, and Challenges","authors":"A. F. Drummond, D. Cruz","doi":"10.3928/24761222-20180409-01","DOIUrl":null,"url":null,"abstract":"Introduction: Since the development of the occupational therapy profession in 1917 in the United States, the field has extended to several countries. The first undergraduate occupational therapy program in Brazil started in 1956 in Rio de Janeiro. Objective: We describe the history of occupational therapy in Brazil, from historical events that facilitated","PeriodicalId":93260,"journal":{"name":"Annals of international occupational therapy","volume":"7 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.0000,"publicationDate":"2018-07-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":"3","resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":null,"PeriodicalName":"Annals of international occupational therapy","FirstCategoryId":"1085","ListUrlMain":"https://doi.org/10.3928/24761222-20180409-01","RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":null,"ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":null,"EPubDate":"","PubModel":"","JCR":"","JCRName":"","Score":null,"Total":0}
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Abstract
Introduction: Since the development of the occupational therapy profession in 1917 in the United States, the field has extended to several countries. The first undergraduate occupational therapy program in Brazil started in 1956 in Rio de Janeiro. Objective: We describe the history of occupational therapy in Brazil, from historical events that facilitated