Vol 33(8):577-672
People with intellectual disability
Lisa Millar, BSc, was an Honours student, The School of Behavioural Sciences, The University of Newcastle, New South Wales.
Mark C Chorlton, BA, PhD, is Lecturer, The School of Behavioural Sciences, The University of Newcastle, New South Wales.
Nicholas Lennox, MBBS, BMedSc, DipObst, FRACGP, is Associate Professor and Director, Queensland Centre for Intellectual and Developmental Disability, School of Population Health, The University of Queensland, Mater Hospitals, Brisbane, Queensland.
The provision of health care to people with intellectual disability is increasingly the role of the general practitioner following the patient’s de-institutionalisation. However, the quality of this care is often inadequate. There are many contributing reasons for this. People with intellectual disability suffer multiple undiagnosed – or, when diagnosed, inadequately managed conditions. Rates of morbidity and mortality among this group of people is substantially higher than that of the general population. A large proportion of the commonly undiagnosed inadequately managed medical conditions are treatable and/or preventable.
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