Health Promotion & Preventative Screening
Health care providers often focus on the disability of the patient, and miss health promotion and prevention opportunities. People with IDD are more likely than the general population to have poorer health outcomes that are not directly caused by their disability. Remember to give age appropriate health screenings. Work with caretakers and individuals with IDD to encourage more active lifestyles to improve health and well-being.
Check out these video trainings, tools, and links to improve health promotion and screening.
Check out these video trainings, tools, and links to improve health promotion and screening.
Video Trainings
Webinar includes tips for what doctors and health professionals can do to encourage physical activity in patients with intellectual and developmental disabilities (2014).
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“Understanding Health and Health Promotion for People with ID”. Case-based learning modules (2018).
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Tools
Screening: These age appropriate health screening guides are for the general population, but remember to provide these screenings for your patients with developmental disabilities.
The "Healthy Habits" section of My Health Toolkit has plain language handouts and resources for your patients and caregivers about Screening, Nutrition, Activity, and Diabetes Management.
Infographic on increasing physical activity.
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Tips for Women with Disabilities on Understanding Breast Cancer
Health Care for Adults with Disabilities
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Links
- Disability and Health: CDC Website with many plain language resources and information for healthcare providers.
- The Florida Center for Inclusive Communities offers a series of factsheets and materials that are aimed at helping patients with IDD understand their health care needs.
- Nutrition: Website providing specific strategies to support I/DD healthy eating which are helpful in combating CVD and Diabetes (MTDH Rural Health Institute).
- Health Promotion and Disease Prevention Strategies in Older Adults with Intellectual and Developmental Disabilities (Carmeli and Imam, 2014): This article provides discussion current disease prevention strategies, and includes information on low and high tech assistive-technology with individuals with IDD.
- Primary Care for Women with Intellectual Disabilities (Wilkinson and Cerreto, 2008): Review of the literature.
- National Center on Health, Physical Activity and Disability, (NCHPAD), provides health provider tools, programs and resources to build inclusive health communities.