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The key to progress?
- Author:
- MOORE Debra
- Journal article citation:
- Learning Disability Today, 9(5), July 2009, pp.32-33.
- Publisher:
- Pavilion
- Place of publication:
- Hove
This article provides an overview of the eleven key areas covered by new guidance on health action planning and health facilitation, launched as part of a Valuing People Now resource pack. They aim tackle health inequalities faced by people with learning disabilities. The areas cover: a whole systems approach, identifying health needs and monitoring progress, comprehensive health checks, a human rights approach, public health, partnership boards, action for health frameworks, workforce, supporting people and family carers to plan, including everyone, and good health action planning and health facilitation.
A health toolkit for people with learning disabilities
- Authors:
- HUNT C., et al
- Journal article citation:
- Nursing Times, 21.03.06, 2006, pp.34-36.
- Publisher:
- Nursing Times
People with learning disabilities are likely to have greater health needs than the majority of the population but are less likely to access health services and receive treatment. This article reports on a local initiative to develop a toolkit that people with learning disabilities can use to help them address their health needs though a simple health check and a health action plan.
Health of people with intellectual disabilities: a review of factors influencing access to health care
- Author:
- RUDDICK Loraine
- Journal article citation:
- British Journal of Health Psychology, 10(4), November 2005, pp.559-570.
- Publisher:
- Wiley
The rights and needs of people with intellectual disabilities are being acknowledged within Department of Health policies. In spite of this, however, it is frequently cited that people with intellectual disabilities are vulnerable to many health problems but have poor access to health-related services. There are many factors that can act as barriers to people with intellectual disabilities enjoying good health and accessing services. These include: (a) a lack of clarity regarding responsibilities for ensuring that health policies are operationalized; (b) social and residential aspects of life being emphasized within the quality of life framework for evaluating services for people with intellectual disabilities, with health as an under-represented domain; (c) a lack of reliable and valid measures that can be used with carers and people with intellectual disabilities to explore health, particularly in comparison to literature on the general population; (d) potential communication difficulties (between the person with intellectual disabilities, their carers and health staff) that can impact on decision-making processes from early identification of health problems through to the stage of gaining appropriate treatment. These areas are discussed giving rise to questions and challenges for policy makers, researchers and clinicians.
How social care staff can use reasonable adjustments to support the health of people with learning disabilities
- Author:
- PUBLIC HEALTH ENGLAND
- Publisher:
- Public Health England
- Publication year:
- 2017
- Pagination:
- 4
- Place of publication:
- London
This factsheet provides information how social care staff can use reasonable adjustments - changes the law says people or services must make so disabled people can use services as easily as everybody else - to support the health of people with learning disabilities. It is the second in a series of factsheets which show how social care staff can support the health needs of people with learning disabilities. The leaflet also includes a link to a supporting slide set that can be used by social care staff as a training resource. (Edited publisher abstract)
How social care staff can help someone with learning disabilities prepare for an annual health check
- Author:
- PUBLIC HEALTH ENGLAND
- Publisher:
- Public Health England
- Publication year:
- 2017
- Pagination:
- 3
- Place of publication:
- London
This factsheet provides information for social care staff on how they can help someone with learning disabilities prepare for an annual health check. It is the third in a series of factsheets which show how social care staff can support the health needs of people with learning disabilities. The leaflet also includes a link to a supporting slide set that can be used by social care staff as a training resource. (Edited publisher abstract)
‘Eye Know’: translating needs from annual health checks for people with learning disabilities to demand
- Author:
- CODLING Mary
- Journal article citation:
- British Journal of Learning Disabilities, 41(1), 2013, pp.45-50.
- Publisher:
- Wiley
Annual health checks for people with learning disabilities are a concept that was introduced by the Government in 2001 as a catalyst to improve access to health services and identify health needs that have previously gone undetected. Nonetheless, to date, there has been little evidence of the effectiveness of these health checks. This study begins by looking at the findings from the existing literature on the access people with learning disabilities have to optometrist services. It then investigates the factors that prevent people with learning disabilities in Wokingham from accessing optometrist services and eye tests through talking to people with learning disabilities from service users and advocacy groups. The outcome has shown that access by people with learning disabilities to opticians has increased with a number of people having problems identified and glasses prescribed. This study provides an understanding of how evidence of consistent unmet need identified from annual health checks directed innovative practice to improve outcomes that are of benefit to people with learning disabilities. Annual health checks play a crucial role for people with learning disabilities and can provide the foundation for services to further explore why some health needs continue to go unmet. (Edited publisher abstract)
Uncovering health care inequalities among adults with intellectual and developmental disabilities
- Authors:
- WARD Rolanda L., NICHOLS Amanda D., FREEDMAN Ruth I.
- Journal article citation:
- Health and Social Work, 35(4), November 2010, pp.280-290.
- Publisher:
- Oxford University Press
Focus groups with parents/guardians, self-advocates, and community support professionals and key informant interviews with health care professionals were conducted to assess health disparities experienced by adults with intellectual and developmental disabilities. Findings indicate that adults with intellectual and developmental disabilities face health care disparities and inequities in four areas: access, knowledge, communication, and quality. The need to increase availability of, and access to, primary care providers and other health professionals is highlighted.
Health action planning and health facilitation for people with learning disabilities: good practice guide: easy read
- Author:
- GREAT BRITAIN. Department of Health
- Publisher:
- Great Britain. Department of Health
- Publication year:
- 2009
- Pagination:
- 28p.
- Place of publication:
- London
This easy read version describe and clarifies good practice in health facilitation and health action planning to reduce health inequalities experienced by people with learning disabilities. It includes ideas for improving health action plans and health facilitation.
Receipt of professional care coordination among families raising children with special health care needs: a multilevel analysis of state policy needs
- Authors:
- PARISH Susan L., et al
- Journal article citation:
- Children and Youth Services Review, 31(1), January 2009, pp.63-70.
- Publisher:
- Elsevier
Data from the 2002 National Survey of Children with Special Health Care Needs in the US were analyzed to understand the state-level policies and individual characteristics associated with receipt of professional care coordination by families raising children with special health care needs. Families living in states with more generous State Children's Health Insurance Programs (SCHIP) were more likely to receive professional care coordination. Numerous individual characteristics are associated with receipt of support services. States could likely improve access to support services for these families by expanding SCHIP and implementing targeted measures to help uninsured children, children whose parents do not speak English, those living below 300% of the federal poverty level, and families raising children with the most severe impairments.
Equal treatment: closing the gap: information for primary care trusts, local authorities and strategic health authorities
- Author:
- DISABILITY RIGHTS COMMISSION
- Publisher:
- Disability Rights Commission
- Publication year:
- 2006
- Pagination:
- 5p.
- Place of publication:
- London
This report probed the experience of people with mental health problems and/or learning disabilities of primary care services in England and Wales (1) after international research showed that these two groups were at higher risk of serious physical health problems. From December 2006, the NHS – including Primary Care Trusts in England and Local Health Boards in Wales - will come under the Disability Equality Duty which places them under an obligation to ensure that their policies and practices do not discriminate, and do promote equal opportunities for disabled people. But a wide range of current practices, identified by the investigation, could clearly breach this duty. The investigation provides important new evidence that people with learning disabilities and people with mental health problems are more likely to experience major illness, to develop serious health conditions at an earlier age and to die of them sooner than other people. Yet they are also less likely to receive some of the important evidence-based treatments and health checks than others with the same condition but without a mental health condition or learning disability. They also face real barriers to accessing services.