TY - BOOK AU - Thompson,Jeanette AU - Thompson,Jeanette AU - Pickering,Sharon TI - Meeting the health needs of people who have a learning disability SN - 9780702025327 (pbk.) : AV - RC570.M376 U1 - 362.1087 THO PY - 2001/// CY - Edinburgh PB - Baillière Tindall KW - Psychiatric nursing KW - Health promotion KW - Learning disabled KW - Medical care KW - Health and hygiene KW - Health and Wellbeing KW - ukslc KW - Community nursing KW - thema KW - Teaching of students with learning difficulties KW - Personal & public health N1 - Includes bibliographical references and index; Section 1: Context of health.1. Future directions-initiatives and agendas--2. Concepts of Health and disability--3. Influences on Health--4. Health needs of people who have a learning disability. Section 2: Strategies for identifying health needs--5. The public health agenda--6. The assessment of health needs--7. Health promotion with people who have a learning disability--8. Assessing health information--Section 3: Meeting health needs--9. Being well and my well-being--10. Self-concept and people who have learning disabilities--11. Valued occupation for people who have a learning disability--12. Sexual health--13. Mental Health--14. Life transitions and personal change--Section 4: Developing partnerships--15. Supporting the supporters - some reflections on family caregiving--16. Working with communities--17. Interprofessional and multi-agency working N2 - This text examines the physical and psychological health needs of people with learning difficulties and how the required services can best be provided ER -