What is it about?
Taking a life span approach I consider both how the needs for this population may be the same or different, and then how they are actually catered for.
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Why is it important?
Women with intellectual impairments are often in more vulnerable situations (e.g. poverty, dependence etc.) which has implications for their health needs. However, due to factors such as their invisibility, lack of access, stigma and discrimination they may receive very poor health care.
Perspectives
It is important in an edited book which reviews all aspects of women's sexual and reproductive health that this group of women are represented. Whilst intellectual impairment is the largest disability group, because of the very nature of their disability and society's response to it, women with intellectual impairments are frequently not represented. I hope this chapter adds at least one grain of sand to re-balance this discrimination.
Professor Jan Burns
Canterbury Christ Church University
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This page is a summary of: Women With Intellectual and Developmental Impairments, September 2019, Taylor & Francis,
DOI: 10.4324/9781351035620-40.
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