Discrimination and Other Barriers to Accessing Health Care: Perspectives of Patients with Mild and Moderate Intellectual Disability and Their Carers

PLoS ONE

Volumn 8, Issue 8, 2013, Pages

  Ali, Afia ^a   Scior, Katrina ^a   Ratti, Victoria ^a   Strydom, Andre ^a   King, Michael ^a   Hassiotis, Angela ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY COLLEGE LONDON   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; CAREGIVER; CAREGIVER SUPPORT; CLINICAL ARTICLE; ETHNIC GROUP; FEMALE; HEALTH CARE ACCESS; HEALTH CARE DISPARITY; HEALTH CARE QUALITY; HEALTH PERSONNEL ATTITUDE; HUMAN; INTELLECTUAL IMPAIRMENT; INTERPERSONAL COMMUNICATION; KNOWLEDGE; LANGUAGE; MALE; PATIENT ATTITUDE; QUALITATIVE RESEARCH; SEMI STRUCTURED INTERVIEW; SOCIAL DISCRIMINATION;

ADULT; CAREGIVERS; COMMUNICATION; ENGLAND; FEMALE; HEALTH CARE SURVEYS; HEALTH SERVICES ACCESSIBILITY; HEALTHCARE DISPARITIES; HUMANS; INTELLECTUAL DISABILITY; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; QUALITATIVE RESEARCH; QUESTIONNAIRES; SOCIAL DISCRIMINATION; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 84881531228     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19326203     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0070855     Document Type: Article

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