Rehabilitation Process and Outcome

Dr Thilo Kroll is Co-Director of the Social Dimensions of Health Institute of the Universities of Dundee and St Andrews and Professor of Disability and Public Health Research in the School of Nursing and Midwifery at the University of Dundee, Scotland, where he is establishing disability and health, including rehabilitation as a research focus.

Dr Kroll has been working on disability, rehabilitation and outcomes for 15 years and has published widely. He has edited “Focus on Disability: Trends in Research and Application” (2008) and co-edited “Towards Best Practices for Surveying People with Disabilities” (2007). The latter book focuses on the need to make health and population surveys more inclusive, and to produce alternative formats for outcome and self-report measures for people with disabilities.

He is also interested in patient-centered outcome assessment, environmental barriers and facilitators of participation, the benefits of exercise, patient-practitioner relationship characteristics, inappropriate service access for socially marginalized populations, and opportunities for rehabilitation in dementia. Dr Kroll has collaborated with colleagues at the National Rehabilitation Hospital in Washington, DC on research related to the prevention of secondary conditions after spinal cord injury, and he is further working with colleagues in Scotland on community-based stroke outcome assessment.

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