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This paper is about a view of behavior-environment relations called behavioral ecology, about health status and health care for persons hospitalized with spinal cord injuries, and about some relationships between these two areas. One major purpose is to communicate some of the essential flavor of behavioral ecology. This will be done by presenting some background comments in the next section and presenting some key aspects or guiding assumptions of behavioral ecology in a later section.
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Willems, E.P. (1976). Behavioral Ecology, Health Status, and Health Care: Applications to the Rehabilitation Setting. In: Altman, I., Wohlwill, J.F. (eds) Human Behavior and Environment. Springer, Boston, MA. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4684-2550-5_6
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