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A Blind Spot in the System: Health Care for People with Developmental Disabilities 2008 — People with developmental disabilities confront numerous barriers to maximizing their health and function. Cognitive and communication challenges increase the complexity of health care delivery, especially in a health care system that is not organized or funded to meet the specialized needs of this population. In 2006, a group of stakeholders from San Francisco and San Mateo came together to discuss barriers to care and to formulate a strategy for improving health care access and quality for this population.
Adults with intellectual disability and the GP 2004 — This article outlines the management of this group of patients, and provides strategies for treatment using a case vignette.
Approaches to the Integration of Services for Individuals with Intellectual and Other Developmental Disabilities (I/DD) 2014 — Today, there is a great deal of focus on integration of physical and behavioral health care services within the health care system overall, as well as within state Medicaid programs. Individuals with intellectual and other developmental disabilities (I/DD) often have multiple physical, behavioral, and long-term services and support (LTSS) needs.
Better health, better lives: children and young people with intellectual disabilities and their families 2010 — This report briefly reviews the current situation of children with intellectual disabilities and their families in the WHO European Region, with particular regard to their enjoyment of their right to health.
Bridging the Aging and Developmental Disabilities Service Networks: Challenges and Best Practices 2012 — People with developmental disabilities are aging at unprecedented rates and have unique health and service needs. Adults with developmental disabilities have a higher risk of developing chronic health conditions at younger ages than other adults, due to the confluence of biological factors related to syndromes and associated disabilities. They also may face poor access to adequate health care, as well as lifestyle and environmental issues.
Canada's Health Care Providers: Provincial Profiles 2012 — Free download of MS Excel spreadsheet. These provincial profiles provide comparable information on health care provider population trends for 10 provinces and nationwide for 27 health occupations in Canada. They include information on the availability of training programs, supply trends, regulatory information, rates per 100,000 population and the proportion of female providers.
Canada's Health Care Providers - 1997 to 2011: A Reference Guide — Free download. Canada's Health Care Providers, 1997 to 2011: A Reference Guide provides aggregate, supply-based data and graduate information on 27 health professions for the past 15 years, by province/territory and by year. It is produced every two years. For the first time, this report presents information on training capacity
Changing Attitudes Changing the World The Health and Health Care of People with Intellectual Disabilities 2005 — New research studies conducted by Special Olympics found disturbing evidence that individuals with intellectual disabilities face widespread health problems, while physicians, dentists and other health professionals are not receiving adequate training in order to treat them.
Emotional and Behavioral Health in Persons with Mental Retardation/Developmental Disabilities: Research Challenges and Opportunities 2001 — The Workshop was designed to identify barriers to the inclusion of people with mental retardation and developmental disabilities in federally funded research in the United States. The goal was to define ways to increase inclusion of people with mental retardation in research in order to promote evidenced-based treatment for this population.
Equality and Equity of Access to Healthcare for People with Intellectual Disabilities 2011 — This article highlights problems encountered by people with intellectual disabilities when they seek to access healthcare. Four key domains for change (practice, education, policy and research) are explored and some practical strategies for achieving change are identified.
Feature Issue on Enhancing Quality and Coordination of Health Care for Persons with Chronic Illness and/or Disabilities 2005 — For individuals with disabilities and/or chronic illnesses who have complex health care and other support needs, it is too often the case that they must navigate complex service systems largely on their own, trying to identify and put together all the pieces of the services and supports they require.
Health & Intellectual Disability — People with intellectual disabilities have a right to health care.
Health Care in People with Intellectual Disability Guidelines for General Practitioners 2006 — These Guidelines are designed to assist general practitioners to provide comprehensive health care to people with intellectual disability. The Guidelines are based on the best evidence available at the time of development. They provide information about commonly occurring health conditions that need to be screened for in people with intellectual disability.
Health Inequalities & People with Learning Disabilities in the UK: 2010 — People with learning disabilities have poorer health than their non-disabled peers, differences in health status that are, to an extent, avoidable.
Health inequalities and people with a learning disability 2013 — This paper examines the evidence relating to the health inequalities faced by people with a learning disability. It also considers policy developments from the Department of Health, Social Services and Public Safety (DHSSPS, Northern Ireland) in terms of addressing health inequalities in the learning disability population.
Health Needs Assessment Report: PEOPLE WITH LEARNING DISABILITIES IN SCOTLAND 2004 — The Health Needs Assessment is a very important document as it highlights the very real need for change within the health service for people with learning disabilities. It opens the way for a new system of health checks which can establish the real health issues people with learning disabilities face, along with the normal health problems which we all have to face each day.
Improving Health and Lives Learning Disabilities Observatory — The Observatory aims to provide better, easier to understand, information on the health and wellbeing of people with learning disabilities. Gathering information from across England, it will help hospitals and other providers of health and social care, to understand better the needs of people with learning disabilities, and their families and carers.
Including Individuals with Intellectual/Developmental Disabilities and Co-Occurring Mental Illness: Challenges that Must Be Addressed in Health Care Reform 2013 — The nation’s response to the service needs of individuals of all ages with co-occurring intellectual/developmental disabilities (IDD; e.g., autism) and mental illness (MI) is of concern. Nationally, State IDD and mental health (MH) authorities are responsible for funding and monitoring needed services, yet support and funding is uneven.
Innovative Methods of Providing Health Services for People with Intellectual Disability 2013 A review of the literature — Recent reviews and studies show that people with intellectual disability often have worse health status than the general population. Their life expectancy is lower, and they are 2.5 times more likely to have health problems, including epilepsy, heart conditions, diabetes and morbid obesity
Meeting the health needs of people with learning disabilities RCN guidance for nursing staff 2013 — This updated guide has been developed to support registered nurses and nursing students across the range of health services,who are trained in fields other than learning disabilities,to deliver high-quality health care to people with learning disabilities.
Psychological Services and the Future of Health Care in Canada 2003 — This article explores the potential role of psychologists in a restructured public health care system that goes beyond hospital and physician care to home care and a revamped primary care system.
The Community Inclusion Project: Comprehensive Assessment and Treatment for People with Dual Diagnosis — The primary purpose of the CIP was to provide outpatient evaluations and staff training for individuals with dual diagnoses
The Danger of a Dysfunctional Medical Practice 2005 — Toxic offices take a toll on everyone, including your patients. Here's how to improve your practice's health.
The principles and framework for interdisciplinary collaboration in primary health care 2005 — The work of the Enhancing Interdisciplinary Collaboration in Primary Health Care (EICP) Initiative is focused on how to create the conditions for health professionals to work together in the most effective and efficient way so that they can produce the best health outcomes for individuals and their families—the patients, clients and consumers of our national health system.
U.S. Surveillance of Health of People with Intellectual Disabilities 2009 — The movement toward community living by people with disabilities has only strengthened the need to assess the health status and needs of people with ID to better plan appropriate service delivery and monitor its effectiveness.
Understanding Intellectual Disability & Health — An understanding of the nature of intellectual disability is essential for health care professionals, who are required to support equal access to their services for all disabled people.
Why Competition Is Essential in the Delivery of Publicly Funded Health Care Services 2004 — Repeated injections of large amounts of additional money into the health care system allows governments to avoid confronting the most important structural weakness in Canada’s health care system — its lack of incentive to increase productivity.