Primary health care provision for people with learning difficulties
作者:
Jackie Rodgers,
期刊:
Health&Social Care in the Community
(WILEY Available online 1994)
卷期:
Volume 2,
issue 1
页码: 11-17
ISSN:0966-0410
年代: 1994
DOI:10.1111/j.1365-2524.1994.tb00144.x
出版商: Blackwell Publishing Ltd
关键词: Community Learning Difficulty Teams;interprofessional collaboration;learning difficulties;mental handicap;Primary Health Care
数据来源: WILEY
摘要:
AbstractThe health care needs of people with learning difficulties living in the community are in danger of being ignored. Discussion of such needs is inhibited by a fear of ‘remedicalization’, that is, returning to a domination of a medical model of health in the lives of people with learning difficulties. In a new synthesis of the literature, this paper reviews evidence that health care needs are not being met. It considers the potential for a more effective Primary Health Care (PHC) service through better interprofessional collaboration between Primary Health Care Teams (PHCTs) and Community Learning Difficulty Teams (CLDTs). The meaning of collaboration, in theory and practice, is explored, and the reasons it can be difficult to achieve are discussed. Finally, ways in which improvements in PHC for people with learning difficulties can be attained are sugges
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