Intellectual and Developmental Disabilities: Eugenics

Intellectual and Developmental Disabilities: Eugenics

INTRODUCTION Those working today with individuals with intellectual and developmental disabilities (IDD) are often not aware of the dark side of our history concerning the treatment of this population and why we, some 150 years ago, made institutions or state schools for them (1). Maybe we have forgotten or chosen to forget something that we were not taught in school, and it is likely that our ...

Intellectual and Developmental Disabilities: Male Health

1 Health Services, Division for Intellectual and Developmental Disabilities, Ministry of Social Affairs and Social Services, Jerusalem, Israel 2 Clalit Health Services, Yaski Community Medical Center, Ben Gurion University of the Negev, Beer-Sheva, Israel 3 Department of Physical Therapy, Faculty of Social Welfare and Health Sciences, Haifa University, Haifa, Israel *Correspondence: jmerrick@za...

Newborn Screening for Intellectual and Developmental Disabilities

Intellectual and Developmental Disabilities: Denmark, Normalization, and De-Institutionalization

INTRODUCTION The Danish physician Jens Rasmussen Hübertz (1794–1855) conducted one of the first epidemiological studies on insanity, intellectual and developmental disabilities (IDD) published in 1843 (1) and found a total number of persons with IDD of 2,000 and a prevalence of 0.9 per 1,000 population (2). After graduation, he had worked during a dysenteriae epidemic and this experience togeth...

Deprivation, ethnicity and the prevalence of intellectual and developmental disabilities.

BACKGROUND Social gradients and ethnic disparities have been reported in some forms of intellectual and developmental disabilities. However, information on the association between area deprivation, ethnicity and other forms of intellectual and developmental disabilities are inconclusive. AIM To estimate the independent association between household disadvantage, local area deprivation, ethnic...