Meeting the Health Needs of People with Intellectual Impairment

Learning Disability and Other Intellectual Impairments: Meeting Needs Throughout Health Services

Volumn , Issue , 2008, Pages 15-40

  Higgins, Steve ^a   O'Toole, Mary ^a  

^a KING'S COLLEGE LONDON   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Health action planning; Intellectual impairment; Mental health act; Mental health problems; Professional carers

Indexed keywords

EID: 77956123396     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book    
DOI: 10.1002/9780470697863.ch2     Document Type: Chapter

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