1. Changes over time in the management of long-term conditions in primary health care for adults with intellectual disabilities, and the healthcare inequality gap.
- Author
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Hughes-McCormack L, Greenlaw N, McSkimming P, McCowan C, Ross K, Allan L, Henderson A, Melville C, Morrison J, and Cooper SA
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- Adult, Humans, Primary Health Care, Healthcare Disparities, Intellectual Disability therapy
- Abstract
Background: Quality of primary healthcare impacts on health outcomes. This study aimed to quantify trends in good practice and the healthcare inequalities gap., Method: Indicators of best-practice management of long-term conditions and health promotion were extracted from primary healthcare records on 721 adults with intellectual disabilities in 2007-2010, and 3638 in 2014. They were compared over time, and with the general population in 2014, using Fisher's Exact test and ordinal regression., Results: Management improved for adults with intellectual disabilities over time (OR = 5.32; CI = 2.69-10.55), but not for the general population (OR = 0.74; CI = 0.34-1.64). However, it remained poorer, but to a lesser extent, compared with the general population (OR = 0.38; CI = 0.20-0.73 in 2014, and OR = 0.05; CI = 0.02-0.12 in 2007-2010). In 2014, health care was comparable to the general population on 49/78 (62.8%) indicators., Conclusions: The extent of the healthcare inequality gap reduced over this period, but remaining inequalities highlight that further action is still necessary., (© 2020 John Wiley & Sons Ltd.)
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- 2021
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