Health and Social Policies for Australian Men and Boys with Intellectual and Developmental Disability: A Health and Wellbeing Double Jeopardy?

Nathan J. Wilson; Andy Smidt; Matilda Tehan

doi:10.22374/ijmsch.v1iSP1.6

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Health and Social Policies for Australian Men and Boys with Intellectual and Developmental Disability: A Health and Wellbeing Double Jeopardy?

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Health and Social Policies for Australian Men and Boys with Intellectual and Developmental Disability: A Health and Wellbeing Double Jeopardy?

Nathan J. Wilson, Andy Smidt and Matilda Tehan

International journal of men's social and community health, Vol.1(SP1), pp.e6-e13

08/06/2018

DOI: https://doi.org/10.22374/ijmsch.v1iSP1.6

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Health

Social policy

Australia

Intellectual disability

adaptive behaviour

Intellectual disability is characterized by a combination of limitations in intellectual functioning and adaptive behaviour originating during the developmental period, before the age of 18. 1 Intellectual functioning refers to an individual’s capacity to learn, problem solve and reason; adaptive behaviour refers to the conceptual (e.g., language, money, time), social (e.g., interpersonal skills, social responsibility, ability to follow rules), and practical (e.g., personal care, travel, use of telephone) skills. Developmental disability is a term used to describe lifelong physical and/or cognitive disabilities and includes, but is not limited to, intellectual disability, cerebral palsy, autism, Down syndrome, Attention Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder (ADHD; in the USA) and fetal alcohol syndrome. 2 As intellectual and developmental disabilities often co-occur, most health, educational and social professionals work with people who have both.

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Title: Health and Social Policies for Australian Men and Boys with Intellectual and Developmental Disability: A Health and Wellbeing Double Jeopardy?
Creators: Nathan J. Wilson - Western Sydney University
Andy Smidt - University of Sydney
Matilda Tehan - Western Sydney University
Publication Details: International journal of men's social and community health, Vol.1(SP1), pp.e6-e13
Publisher: Dougmar Publishing Group Inc.
Identifiers: 991013173813502368
Copyright: This article is distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution-Non Commercial 4.0 International License.
Academic Unit: Faculty of Health
Language: English
Resource Type: Journal article

Health and Social Policies for Australian Men and Boys with Intellectual and Developmental Disability: A Health and Wellbeing Double Jeopardy?

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