IDEAS home Printed from https://ideas.repec.org/a/gam/jijerp/v21y2024i4p409-d1365645.html
   My bibliography  Save this article

A Settings and Systems Approach to Promoting the Health and Wellbeing of People with an Intellectual Disability

Author

Listed:
  • Andrew Joyce

    (Centre for Social Impact, Swinburne University of Technology, Hawthorn, VIC 3122, Australia)

Abstract

Research has shown that people with an intellectual disability have higher rates of certain preventable health conditions and a higher rate of avoidable mortality relative to the general population. With respect to health behaviours, they also have lower levels of physical activity and poorer nutrition. Despite the increased health needs, this population cohort is less likely to have the opportunity to participate in health promotion programs. The interventions that have been delivered are programmatic and individual in focus and have lacked a broader ecological and settings focus, which makes them very difficult to scale. Health promotion programs designed for the general population, such as lifestyle campaigns, rarely reach people with an intellectual disability. This increases the importance of ensuring that the settings in which they live and engage with are as health promoting as possible. Interventions have been particularly absent in the workplace for people with an intellectual disability. This paper highlights gaps in a settings-and-systems-based approach to promoting the health and wellbeing of people with an intellectual disability, particularly with respect to workplace health promotion. The paper concludes with recommendations for a systems approach that integrates approaches across multiple settings to better promote the health of this population cohort.

Suggested Citation

  • Andrew Joyce, 2024. "A Settings and Systems Approach to Promoting the Health and Wellbeing of People with an Intellectual Disability," IJERPH, MDPI, vol. 21(4), pages 1-10, March.
    • Handle: RePEc:gam:jijerp:v:21:y:2024:i:4:p:409-:d:1365645
    as

    Download full text from publisher

    File URL: https://www.mdpi.com/1660-4601/21/4/409/pdf
    Download Restriction: no
    File URL: https://www.mdpi.com/1660-4601/21/4/409/
    Download Restriction: no
    ---><---

    References listed on IDEAS

    as
    1. Resnicow, K. & Page, S.E., 2008. "Embracing chaos and complexity: A quantum change for public health," American Journal of Public Health, American Public Health Association, vol. 98(8), pages 1382-1389.
    2. Noelia Flores & Carmen Moret-Tatay & Belén Gutiérrez-Bermejo & Andrea Vázquez & Cristina Jenaro, 2021. "Assessment of Occupational Health and Job Satisfaction in Workers with Intellectual Disability: A Job Demands–Resources Perspective," IJERPH, MDPI, vol. 18(4), pages 1-16, February.
    Full references (including those not matched with items on IDEAS)

    Most related items

    These are the items that most often cite the same works as this one and are cited by the same works as this one.
    1. Newton-Levinson, Anna & Higdon, Megan & Sales, Jessica & Gaydos, Laurie & Rochat, Roger, 2020. "Context matters: Using mixed methods timelines to provide an accessible and integrated visual for complex program evaluation data," Evaluation and Program Planning, Elsevier, vol. 80(C).
    2. Kirillova, Ksenia & Lehto, Xinran, 2015. "An existential conceptualization of the vacation cycle," Annals of Tourism Research, Elsevier, vol. 55(C), pages 110-123.
    3. Keshavarz, Nastaran & Nutbeam, Don & Rowling, Louise & Khavarpour, Freidoon, 2010. "Schools as social complex adaptive systems: A new way to understand the challenges of introducing the health promoting schools concept," Social Science & Medicine, Elsevier, vol. 70(10), pages 1467-1474, May.
    4. Braciszewski, Jordan M. & Tzilos Wernette, Golfo K. & Moore, Roland S. & Bock, Beth C. & Stout, Robert L. & Chamberlain, Patricia, 2018. "A pilot randomized controlled trial of a technology-based substance use intervention for youth exiting foster care," Children and Youth Services Review, Elsevier, vol. 94(C), pages 466-476.
    5. Nordhagen, Stella & Nielsen, Jennifer & van Mourik, Tom & Smith, Erin & Klemm, Rolf, 2019. "Fostering CHANGE: Lessons from implementing a multi-country, multi-sector nutrition-sensitive agriculture project," Evaluation and Program Planning, Elsevier, vol. 77(C).
    6. Goldenberg, Shira M. & Strathdee, Steffanie A. & Gallardo, Manuel & Rhodes, Tim & Wagner, Karla D. & Patterson, Thomas L., 2011. ""Over here, it's just drugs, women and all the madness": The HIV risk environment of clients of female sex workers in Tijuana, Mexico," Social Science & Medicine, Elsevier, vol. 72(7), pages 1185-1192, April.
    7. Shae Wissell & Leila Karimi & Tanya Serry & Lisa Furlong & Judith Hudson, 2022. "“You Don’t Look Dyslexic”: Using the Job Demands—Resource Model of Burnout to Explore Employment Experiences of Australian Adults with Dyslexia," IJERPH, MDPI, vol. 19(17), pages 1-20, August.
    8. Conroy, Denise M. & Allen, Will, 2010. "Who do you think you are? An examination of how systems thinking can help social marketing support new identities and more sustainable living patterns," Australasian marketing journal, Elsevier, vol. 18(3), pages 195-197.

    Corrections

    All material on this site has been provided by the respective publishers and authors. You can help correct errors and omissions. When requesting a correction, please mention this item's handle: RePEc:gam:jijerp:v:21:y:2024:i:4:p:409-:d:1365645. See general information about how to correct material in RePEc.

    If you have authored this item and are not yet registered with RePEc, we encourage you to do it here. This allows to link your profile to this item. It also allows you to accept potential citations to this item that we are uncertain about.

    If CitEc recognized a bibliographic reference but did not link an item in RePEc to it, you can help with this form .

    If you know of missing items citing this one, you can help us creating those links by adding the relevant references in the same way as above, for each refering item. If you are a registered author of this item, you may also want to check the "citations" tab in your RePEc Author Service profile, as there may be some citations waiting for confirmation.

    For technical questions regarding this item, or to correct its authors, title, abstract, bibliographic or download information, contact: MDPI Indexing Manager (email available below). General contact details of provider: https://www.mdpi.com .

    Please note that corrections may take a couple of weeks to filter through the various RePEc services.

    IDEAS is a RePEc service. RePEc uses bibliographic data supplied by the respective publishers.