Health Promotion and Disease Prevention

Physical Health of Adults with Intellectual Disabilities

Volumn , Issue , 2008, Pages 230-251

  Lennox, Nicholas ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF QUEENSLAND   (Australia)

Author keywords

Cervical cancer; Disease prevention; Health services; Mortality; Sri lanka

Indexed keywords

EID: 84957610934     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book    
DOI: 10.1002/9780470776216.ch11     Document Type: Chapter

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