Intellectual Disability and Ill Health A Review of the Evidence O'Hara McCarthy

Intellectual Disability and Ill HealthA Review of the Evidence\nAuthor(s): Jean O'Hara, Jane McCarthy, Nick Bouras\nFormat: Paperback\nPublisher: Cambridge University Press, United Kingdom\nImprint: Cambridge University Press\nISBN-13: 9780521728898, 978-0521728898\nSynopsis\nPeople with intellectual disability often have health needs that go unrecognised and untreated; this may be because of difficulties in communication, diagnostic overshadowing, discrimination or indifference. There is concern that public health measures aimed at reducing the main health killers in the population will not address these issues for people with intellectual disability and may preferentially widen the inequality that already exists. This book is a comprehensive and systematic review of physical and mental health co-morbidities in people with intellectual disability. Such an evidence base is vital in shaping public health policy, healthcare commissioning and the development of more effective healthcare.