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Health promotion enhances decision-making in individuals with intellectual disabilities, suggesting improved professional strategies in social care and education.
Learning about health among individuals with ID appears to constitute a vital component of healthy decision-making, and support persons play a central role in facilitating health-related learning in everyday contexts. Prominent strategies for health promotion targeting individuals with ID include enabling informed decision-making and fostering encouraging relationships. These strategies must be responsive to individual needs, grounded in everyday relationships and supported by organisational structures. Hindering organisational structures and limited health promotion knowledge among professionals may constrain these efforts. Strengthening professional capacity and organisational responsibility within health, social care and educational systems could enhance the conditions for equitable health promotion in this population.
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