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Direct linkBalogh, Robert S.; Hunter, Duncan; Ouellette-Kuntz, Helene – Journal of Applied Research in Intellectual Disabilities, 2005
Background: It has been suggested that persons with an intellectual disability consume a disproportionate amount of hospital services. Policy changes in Ontario in the 1970s and 1980s made it necessary for community health services to accommodate this population that formerly received most of its medical care in the institutions where they lived.…
Descriptors: Medical Services, Community Health Services, Mental Retardation, Schizophrenia
