Meta analysis finds prevalence of intellectual disability higher in low and middle income group countries.

Posted on May 10, 2011 by John Northfield

This meta analysis collated data from published literature between 1980 and 2009 to estimate the prevalence of intellectual disability across all such studies. The authors state the prevalence of intellectual disability across all 52 studies included was 10.37/1000 population. Estimates varied … Continue reading →

Finding What Works in Health Care - Standards for Systematic Reviews

Finding What Works in Health Care: Standards for Systematic Reviews

Released:

March 23, 2011

Type:

Consensus Report

Topics:

Biomedical and Health Research, Public Health, Quality and Patient Safety

Activity:

Standards for Systematic Reviews of Comparative Effectiveness Research

Board:

Board on Health Care Services

Healthcare decision makers—including clinicians and other healthcare providers—increasingly turn to systematic reviews for reliable, evidence-based comparisons of health interventions. Systematic reviews identify, select, assess, and synthesize the findings of similar but separate studies. They can help clarify what is known and not known about the potential benefits and harms of drugs, devices, and other healthcare services. But the quality of systematic reviews varies; often the scientific rigor of the collected literature is not scrutinized or there are errors in data extraction and meta-analysis.

What Makes A Good Nurse - Reviewed

What Makes  a Good Nurse A Preview of the new book  by Derek Sellman
"It is true that science has much to offer nursing but to consider nursing as solely a science, or as merely a set of technical tasks to be accomplished, is to misunderstand the nature of nursing... interactions between nurses and patients  are inevitably (inter)personal and as such there is a need to resist those pressures that might incline nurses to view patients as just so many widgets to be processed through a service or as customers of a store."
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Mental Health Services for Adults with Intellectual Disability

Mental Health Services for Adults with Intellectual Disability

Strategies and Solutions

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• Price: £24.95 £22.46
• Hardback: 168 pages
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• Published: January 2010
• ISBN: 978-1-84872-040-4
• Publisher: Psychology Press
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Edited by Nick Bouras, and Geraldine Holt.

Series: Maudsley Series.

This book considers how mental health services have evolved over the past three decades to meet the needs of people with intellectual disability, focusing on the ways that theories and policies have been applied to clinical practice.
Nick Bouras and Geraldine Holt both have extensive experience in developing and running mental health services and bring together international contributors all with longstanding expertise in the fields of mental health and intellectual disability. They present the current evidence-based practice as how people with intellectual disability can be best cared for in clinical settings. The book embraces a foreword by Professor David Goldberg and is divided into three sections: development of specialist mental health services, clinical practice, and training as an integrated component of service delivery.
Chapters cover topics including:

• the association between psychopathology and intellectual disability
• international perspectives
• neuroimaging and genetic syndromes
• training professionals, families and support workers.

Mental Health Services for Adults with Intellectual Disability provides an overview of the many improvements that have been made in services for people with intellectual disability, as well as examining the shortcomings of the services provided. It offers strategies and solutions for the wide array of interdisciplinary professionals who want to develop the range of resources on offer for people with intellectual disability.....

Bouras N and Holt G
Mental Health Services for Adults with Intellectual Disability: Strategies and Solutions
The specialism in the psychiatry of learning disability is only available in the UK and most of the recent advances in the clinical care of individuals with intellectual disabilities have occurred in the UK. That is not to say that developments of great consequence have not happened elsewhere. This volume is meant to summarise years of academic and clinical endeavour and collect the advances that have been achieved in practice.
Psychology Press, 2010
ISBN: 9781848720404
www.psypress.com/books

Accessibility of Access Information for People with Disabilities

An Investigation into the Design, Development and Testing of a Tool to Improve the Accessibility of Access Information for People with Disabilities

Independent access for all to the built environment is one of the most basic of human rights. It provides social inclusion, integration and acceptance in communities. People with disabilities often encounter barriers to such access, barriers that can discriminate and marginalise to the extent that it prohibits independent livingContact the library to order articles, borrow books, help with research.