Primary Health Care and Health Gain for People with a Learning Disability
- 1 October 1998
- journal article
- Published by Emerald Publishing in Tizard Learning Disability Review
- Vol. 3 (4) , 6-14
- https://doi.org/10.1108/13595474199800032
Abstract
The evidence suggests that the current delivery of primary care to people with a learning disability does not adequately meet their needs. In particular, individuals do not access adequate health promotion, are not having treatable illnesses identified and are not having more complex needs addressed. This review examines this evidence, highlights barriers to the effective delivery of health care and assesses these barriers, pilot projects and the few intervention studies published. Effective response to health needs will need a change in the working patterns of primary, secondary and social care providers. The contracting system and the move to locality-based purchasing may be the ideal catalysts for these changes.Keywords
This publication has 15 references indexed in Scilit:
- Primary Healthcare for People with a Learning DisabilityJournal of the British Institute of Mental Handicap (APEX), 2009
- Primary Care for People with an Intellectual Disability — A Group Practice SurveyJournal of Applied Research in Intellectual Disabilities, 1996
- The Psychiatric Care of People with Intellectual Disabilities: The Perceptions of Consultant Psychiatrists in VictoriaAustralian & New Zealand Journal of Psychiatry, 1996
- Struggles with Time: The careers of parents with adult sons and daughters with learning disabilitiesDisability & Society, 1996
- Primary Health Care for People with a Learning DisabilityBritish Journal of Learning Disabilities, 1996
- Assessing general practitioners' care of adult patients with learning disability: case-control study.Quality and Safety in Health Care, 1996
- The Psychiatric Care of People with Intellectual Disabilities: The Perceptions of Trainee Psychiatrists and Psychiatric Medical OfficersAustralian & New Zealand Journal of Psychiatry, 1995
- The role of the psychiatrist in learning disabilityPsychiatric Bulletin, 1994
- Health care screening for people with mental handicap living in the community.BMJ, 1990
- Planning for community physician services prior to deinstitutionalization of mentally retarded persons.American Journal of Public Health, 1986