Annual health checks for adults with learning disabilities are now being offered in general practices across the UK, to improve access to mainstream primary healthcare and detection of unmet health needs. This article will cover the rationale behind annual health checks and the evidence regarding the...
Aims To determine the proportion of GP practices offering learning disability (LD) annual health checks to patients aged 14 years and above. To determine annual attendance rates at these health check appointments. To identify factors relevant to the uptake of annual health checks that will help to...
By offering annual health checks to people with learning disabilities a variety of health conditions were detected and treated. Health checks took place at a general practice surgery and were performed by a consultant psychiatrist in learning disability, a general practitioner (GP) and a community le...
Annualhealth checksfor people with a learning disability were introduced in Wales in 2006 to improve early detection and treatment. However, the lack of evidence about the long-term health benefits of providing these checks has resulted in many GPs not offering them. The researchers, from both Sw...
From 1997 to 1997 to 2001 inclusive, annual health checks were offered to patients on the learning disabilities register of a general practice with a total of 14,410 patients. An average of 56 patients were invited each year and the attendance rate was 77.5 percent. The structured health check...
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Introduction The volume of lumbar spine surgery has increased considerably over the past decades, placing large costs on health care systems.1-3 Lumbar disc herniation surgery effectively reduces disability and pain in most patients, but a subset experience minimal benefit.4-6 In Scandinavia, 24% ...
ChapterGoogle Scholar Bouck, E. C. (2010). The impact of calculator type and instructional exposure for students with a disability: A pilot study.Learning Disabilities: A Multidisciplinary Journal, 16, 141–148. Google Scholar Bouck, E. C., & Bouck, M. K. (2008). Does it add up? Calc...
Air pollution has been a widespread and visible concern, that has increased significantly over the last decade across many parts of India with several studies tracking the severe consequences for health and well-being [19]. Disability Affected Life Years (DALYs) suggest that deaths of around 1.24...
In fact, depression is the single biggest cause of disability in the world and mental health issues cost the global economy $1 trillion in lost productivity a year. What’s even more alarming is that, from 2013 to 2017, more than 12% of suicides were found to be related to a work ...