Health knowledge and the impact of social exclusion on young people with intellectual disabilities

Young people with learning disabilities encounter significant difficulties on transition from school and from child to adult health and social care services and this can be a cause

Objective To review health information exchange (HIE) processes that affect the health of people with intellectual and developmental disabilities (IDD) and to suggest practical

Poor socioeconomic characteristics can lead people with disabilities to social isolation, which in turn is pre- sented as a contributing factor to the lack of health promotion,

In this article, we examine what the young people in the focus groups said about using social media for sexual health communication, and we explore issues such

Young people with learning disabilities are at significant increased risk of developing mental health problems, but little is known about how these additional

Information on children and young people drug, alcohol and tobacco use is collected by the eHNA (electronic Health Needs Assessment), the Specialist Substance Misuse Service

Services like Facebook, Orkut, and MySpace etc allow people to host their online social networks, people create their profiles in such social networks and share this information

However due to these myths they may receive less sexual health education; many parents/guardians and educators may believe that young people with disabilities don’t need