Access to health care for people with intellectual disability in Belgium: challenges and solutions

Abstract Background people with intellectual disability (PWID), such as those living with Down syndrome, experience poorer health outcomes, are more at-risk of comorbidities and have a lower life expectancy than the general population. Moreover, they are more likely to experience discrimination and refusal of care than other citizens. To support the implementation of the rights of PWID as promoted by the United Nations Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities, the Belgian Health Care Knowledge Centre measured the health disparities between PWID and without ID in Belgium, collected... Mehr ...