Achieving better health for people with intellectual disability: the power of policy

People with intellectual disability have high mental and physical healthcare needs, which must be addressed on individual, local and national levels. Policy interventions informed by research and stakeholder views and extending beyond a focus on health are needed to reduce inequities in this group....

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Autores principales: Sheehan, Rory, Lunsky, Yona, Hassiotis, Angela
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Cambridge University Press 2018
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Editorial
Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC6020264/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/29971143
http://dx.doi.org/10.1192/bjo.2017.9
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spelling pubmed-60202642018-07-03 Achieving better health for people with intellectual disability: the power of policy Sheehan, Rory Lunsky, Yona Hassiotis, Angela BJPsych Open Editorial People with intellectual disability have high mental and physical healthcare needs, which must be addressed on individual, local and national levels. Policy interventions informed by research and stakeholder views and extending beyond a focus on health are needed to reduce inequities in this group. DECLARATION OF INTEREST: None. Cambridge University Press 2018-03-22 /pmc/articles/PMC6020264/ /pubmed/29971143 http://dx.doi.org/10.1192/bjo.2017.9 Text en © The Royal College of Psychiatrists 2018 http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/ This is an Open Access article, distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives licence (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/), which permits non-commercial re-use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is unaltered and is properly cited. The written permission of Cambridge University Press must be obtained for commercial re-use or in order to create a derivative work.
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