Improving access to community care for people with intellectual disability is needed to avert unnecessary hospitalisations

David I Ben-Tovim; Kim Vien

doi:10.5694/mja2.51113

Improving access to community care for people with intellectual disability is needed to avert unnecessary hospitalisations

David I Ben-Tovim, Kim Vien

College of Medicine and Public Health

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Abstract

Finding good measures of the effectiveness of health care in the community is challenging, and this problem certainly applies to care for Australians with intellectual disability. The study by Weise and colleagues,¹ reported in this issue of the MJA, underscores the extent of health care disadvantage experienced by people with intellectual disability in Australia.

Original language	English
Pages (from-to)	25-26
Number of pages	2
Journal	Medical Journal of Australia
Volume	215
Issue number	1
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.5694/mja2.51113
Publication status	Published - Jul 2021

Keywords

Community care
Epilepsy
Intellectual disability
Preventive medicine

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Improving access to community care for people with intellectual disability is needed to avert unnecessary hospitalisations

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