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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.

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