LEARNING DISABILITY

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Knowledge and understanding 

Discuss different models of health & health facilitation

The role of health facilitation has developed with time. The family carers and practitioners wish to improve the health of people facing learning disabilities. The relatives and patients of learning disabilities require support and navigation for their cure at its best and suitable healthcare. The health facilitation helps in the assessment of mainstream services to help people and also to help parts in NHS for the development of necessary skills within the mainstream services. The role of health facilitation involves service development work and informing planning and commissioning along with the work for learning disabilities from people to people. The construction of learning disability, like any identity, depends on the complex interaction of people, places and activities and as such, it provides meaning to that individual's action, which in turn creates their labelled existence (HM Government 2009, 5).

Identify a range of factors that contribute to physical & mental health inequalities in people with learning disabilities

A problem of learning is a term generally describing problems of learning specific. A problem of learning can cause a person to have trouble learning and using certain skills. The skills that are affected most often are: reading, spelling, listening, speaking, reasoning, and mathematics. The problems of learning (in English, "learning disabilities, LD) vary among people. A person with problems of learning may have a problem type of learning different from another person.

The definition of "learning disability" found in the table below from the Act for the Education of Individuals with Disabilities (Individuals with Disabilities Education Act, "or IDEA). IDEA is the federal law that guides how schools provide education and related services to children with disabilities (Mir 2007, 67). Every individual has a different psychological stock which can be affected by lifestyle behaviour, genes and antenatal factors. The health inequalities are also passed on from generation to generation. Not only the genetic factors, but the behaviour shown by mother during pregnancy and behaviour shown in raising the children also affects the health behaviour. The lifestyle factors which affect health behaviour are poverty, education and housing. This also includes stress, drug abuse, nutrition, smoking, alcohol consumption. The socio-economic gradient includes obesity, smoking and nutrition. The socio-economic factors include income, employment status, socio-economic group and educational attainment.

Intellectual skills

Discuss local and national initiatives in health facilitation for people with learning disabilities

The problems of access to good health services for people with learning disabilities have been acknowledged by government and also by some local services. National initiatives have tried to deal with issue but have had remarkably little effect on the figures. Three main factors contribute to this lack of success. In the first place, national initiatives have concentrated on improving services and have clearly recognized the problem of access for people with learning disabilities. The most recent policy framework has been the 2001 White Paper Valuing People that introduced two new initiatives: health ...