Health Needs of People with Learning Disability

Health Needs of People with Learning Disability by Jeannette Thompson Ma Bsc Rnmh Dipn Certed Itec Pgdip Dipman

The notion of addressing bad health and promoting good health among people with learning disabilities is relatively new. Concepts of 'normalisation' of services, integration of people into local communities and providing an 'inclusive' (rather than exclusive) ethos for care have led to the understanding that people with learning disabilities have the right to be treated with the same respect as everyone else. Recognition of their spiritual, legal, political, and sexual rights has therefore been near the top of the agenda for some time now. The last piece in the jigsaw is recognition of their right to live long and healthy lives the subject of this book. The book takes a very practical focus, and incorporates short case studies, practice examples, 'think' points and action points. It is nevertheless grounded in solid theory. There are four sections, working from the general political and professional factors which impinge on health, through to specific strategies for assisting individuals to improve health and reduce high-risk behaviours. The focus throughout is the person with learning disabilities any health models or pieces of legislation are reviewed in this light.Key area of practice Accessible, practical focus, with added featuresImportant undergraduate and post-graduate area Twowell respected authors in this area

Sharon Pickering is a Professor of Criminology and Head of Social Sciences at Monash University. She is an Australian Research Council Future Fellow on Border Policing and Director of the Border Observatory (www.borderobservatory.org). Her work on publishing scholarly work on asylum in the national media was awarded the Australian Human Rights Award in 2012. Professor Pickering recently co-authored a book with Leanne Weber called Globalization and Borders: Deaths at the Global Frontier, which documented and analysed over 40, 000 border related deaths in Europe, North America and Australia. It recently won the C.M. Alder Prize for best book by the Australian and New Zealand Society of Criminology.

Julie Ham is a doctoral student in criminology at Monash University, Australia, and an associate of the Global Alliance Against Traffic in Women (GAATW). Her doctoral research explores how the regulation of sex work and migration shapes sex workers' security, mobility and agency. Since 2003, she has worked with community-based research projects working with and for women in sex work, immigrant and refugee populations, women substance users, low-income populations, and anti-violence organisations. She has published on the impact of anti-trafficking measures on sex workers' rights, feminist participatory action research, and activist efforts by trafficking survivors, sex workers and domestic workers.

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ISBN 13	9780702025327
ISBN 10	0702025321
Title	Health Needs of People with Learning Disability
Author	Jeannette Thompson Ma Bsc Rnmh Dipn Certed Itec Pgdip Dipman
Condition	Unavailable
Binding Type	Paperback
Publisher	Elsevier Health Sciences
Year published	2001-06-27
Number of pages	368
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