Kropp och känsla. Perspektiv på utvecklingsstörning och hälsa
Engelsk titel: Health status and quality of life. Perspectives on intellectual disability and health
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Författare:
Ineland, Jens
Email: jens.ineland@pedag.umu.se
Språk: Swe
Antal referenser: 49
Dokumenttyp:
Artikel
UI-nummer: 15023337
Sammanfattning
This article discusses perspectives of health in relation to people with intellectual
disabilities. Two approaches are introduced: health and lifestyle habits,
and health, identity life styles. A point of departure is the specific social and
societal position in which people with intellectual disabilities are living. This
relation between different aspects on health is always relevant in principle,
but is further intensified in an institutional context of disability care. Based on
these different perspectives, the article raises questions how education, work
and employment, economic conditions, access to public healthcare as well
as autonomy affects the ability for people with intellectual disabilities to make
independent decisions in every-day life that promote health in terms of wellbeing,
quality of life and social identification.