Comprehensive health assessments for adults with intellectual disability living in the community: Weighing up the costs and benefits

Australian Family Physician

Volumn 41, Issue 12, 2012, Pages 969-972

  Gordon, Louisa G ^a   Holden, Libby ^b   Ware, Robert S ^b   Taylor, Miriam T ^b   Lennox, Nick ^b  

^a GRIFFITH UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

^b UNIVERSITY OF QUEENSLAND   (Australia)

Author keywords

Costs and cost analysis; Health expenditures; Health status; Intellectual disability; Mass screening; Primary health care

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; AUSTRALIA; COST BENEFIT ANALYSIS; ECONOMICS; FEMALE; GENERAL PRACTICE; HEALTH CARE COST; HUMAN; INTELLECTUAL IMPAIRMENT; MALE; METHODOLOGY; MIDDLE AGED; NEEDS ASSESSMENT; PUBLIC HEALTH; STATISTICS;

ADULT; AUSTRALIA; COST-BENEFIT ANALYSIS; FEMALE; GENERAL PRACTICE; HEALTH CARE COSTS; HUMANS; INTELLECTUAL DISABILITY; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; NATIONAL HEALTH PROGRAMS; NEEDS ASSESSMENT; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 84871126470     PISSN: 03008495     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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