Intellectual Disability and Ill Health: A Review of the Evidence

Intellectual Disability and Ill Health: A Review of the Evidence

Intellectual Disability and Ill Health: A Review of the Evidence

Intellectual Disability and Ill Health: A Review of the Evidence

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Overview

People 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 systems, as well as supporting better understanding and practice at an individual clinical level. This is essential reading for policy makers and commissioners of services, as well as individual practitioners across mainstream and specialist health and social care, in considering not only service developments but practice at the coalface.

Product Details

ISBN-13: 9780521728898
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Publication date: 01/21/2010
Pages: 246
Product dimensions: 6.10(w) x 9.10(h) x 0.60(d)

About the Author

Jean O'Hara FRCPsych is Consultant Psychiatrist and Clinical Director, South London and the Maudsley NHS Foundation Trust and Visiting Research Associate, Estia Centre, King's College London, Institute of Psychiatry, London, UK.

Jane McCarthy MD, MRCGP, FRCPsych is Consultant Psychiatrist and Visiting Research Associate, Estia Centre, King's College London, Institute of Psychiatry, London, UK.

Nick Bouras MD, PhD, FRCPsych is Professor Emeritus of Psychiatry at the Institute of Psychiatry, King's College London, Honorary Consultant Psychiatrist at South London and the Maudsley NHS Foundation Trust and Director of Maudsley International, London, UK.

Table of Contents

List of contributors vii

Foreword: Norman Sartorius xi

Preface Jean O'Hara Jane McCarthy Nick Bourns xiii

Section 1 Health care and aetiology

1 Health care and intellectual disability Jean O'Hara 3

2 Congenital causes Jessica A. Hellings Merlin G. Butler John A. Grant 17

3 Disorders of environmental origin Alaa Al-Sheikh 33

Section 2 Systems Disorders

4 Infectious diseases Neil A. Douglas 47

5 Immune system diseases Jennifer Torr Lynette Lee 61

6 Cardiovascular disease Joav Merrick Mohammed Morad 73

7 Respiratory diseases Muhunthan Thillai 78

8 Digestive system diseases Robert W. Davis 88

9 Urological and male genital diseases Stefano Lassi 98

10 Obstetric and gynaecological disorders Maeve Eogan Mary Wingfield 108

11 Metabolic and endocrine diseases Joav Merrick Mohammed Morad 118

12 Neoplasms Simon Bonell 127

13 Otorhinolaryngological disorders Vishwa Radhakrishnan 137

14 Eye diseases and visual impairment J. Margaret Woodhouse 146

15 Dentition and oral health diseases Stefano Fedele Crispian Scully 156

Section 3 Disorders of the nervous system and neurodevelopment

16 Mental illness Stephen Ruedrich 165

17 Neurodevelopmental disorders Seth A. Mensah William I. Fraser 178

18 Diseases of the nervous system I: epilepsy, hydrocephaly and nervous system malformations Basil Cardoza Mike Kerr 190

19 Diseases of the nervous system II: neurodegenerative diseases including dementias Muthukumar Kannabiran Shoumitro Deb 203

20 Diseases of the nervous system III: cerebral palsy, movement disorders and pain perception Henry Kwok Wai-Him Cheung 214

Index 222

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