Epidemiological Issues in Intellectual Disability and Aging Research
| Autor: | Lisa A. Ferretti, Helen Beange, Mary McCarron, Philip McCallion |
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| Rok vydání: | 2018 |
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Gerontology
030506 rehabilitation medicine.medical_specialty education.field_of_study business.industry Public health Population Secondary data Census medicine.disease Health indicator 03 medical and health sciences 0302 clinical medicine Intellectual disability Epidemiology Health care medicine 030212 general & internal medicine 0305 other medical science business Psychology education |
| Zdroj: | Physical Health of Adults with Intellectual and Developmental Disabilities ISBN: 9783319900827 |
| DOI: | 10.1007/978-3-319-90083-4_2 |
| Popis: | Epidemiology is the study of prevalence, incidence, and contributors to chronic conditions and other disorders in a population. Data drawn from epidemiological studies increasingly informs the setting of priorities for public health initiatives and healthcare planning, targeting and implementation. Examples of such datasets are national census data, household surveys, birth and death records, surveillance surveys, health indicator surveys, administrative datasets with health encounter, service utilization, and demographic data, registries, electronic health records, and population surveys targeting persons with specific health conditions or disabilities. Challenges exist to utilizing existing datasets to track aging people with intellectual disability due to differences in definitions and how data are gathered. To improve the availability and comparability of epidemiological studies, there needs to be greater standardization in the definition of intellectual disability, in the designation of levels of disability, agreement on age categories, and the use of standardized identifiers for intellectual disability in national datasets. |
| Databáze: | OpenAIRE |
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