Health Care for People with Intellectual and Developmental Disabilities across the Lifespan
This book provides a broad overview of quality health care for people with intellectual and developmental disabilities (IDD). It focuses on providing the reader a practical approach to dealing with the health and well-being of people with IDD in general t
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Health Care for People with Intellectual and Developmental Disabilities across the Lifespan
Health Care for People with Intellectual and Developmental Disabilities across the Lifespan
I. Leslie Rubin • Joav Merrick Donald E. Greydanus • Dilip R. Patel Editors
Health Care for People with Intellectual and Developmental Disabilities across the Lifespan Rubin and Crocker 3rd Edition
Editors I. Leslie Rubin Innovative Solutions for Disadvantage and Disability and Department of Pediatrics Morehouse School of Medicine Atlanta, GA, USA Donald E. Greydanus Department of Pediatric and Adolescent Medicine, Western Michigan University Homer Stryker MD School of Medicine Western Michigan University Kalamazoo, MI, USA
Joav Merrick National Institute of Child Health and Human Development and Medical Services, Division for Developmental and Developmental Disabilities Ministry of Social Affairs and Social Services Jerusalem, Israel Dilip R. Patel Department of Pediatric and Adolescent Medicine, Western Michigan University Homer Stryker MD School of Medicine Western Michigan University Kalamazoo, MI, USA
ISBN 978-3-319-18095-3 ISBN 978-3-319-18096-0 DOI 10.1007/978-3-319-18096-0
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Part I Introduction
Foreword
It was my privilege to serve as the 16th US Surgeon General from 1998 to 2002. For three of those years, I also served as Assistant Secretary for Health (ASH) in the Department of Health and Human Services (DHHS). As ASH, I was able to lead the development of Healthy People 2010 (HP2010) – the nation’s health plan for the decade. One of the two goals of HP 2010 was to improve the quality and years of healthy life. There are some specific objectives related to the need to im
