The Environmental, Public Health, and Human Rights Impacts on Enhancing the Quality of Life of People with Intellectual Disability

• Other Authors: Sanchez, Laura Elisabet Gomez (Editor)
• Format: Electronic Book Chapter
• Language: English
• Published: Basel, Switzerland MDPI - Multidisciplinary Digital Publishing Institute 2021
• Subjects: Humanities; Social interaction; health promotion; lifestyle; settings approach; health assets; intellectual disability; community participation; inclusive research; context-based interventions; empowerment; inclusion; context; change strategies; conceptual models; human functioning; human rights; person-environment fit; quality of life; valued outcomes; chronic health conditions; health; aging; context-based intervention; social-ecological model of disability; supports paradigm; support needs; support needs assessment; rights; Supports intensity scale (SIS); CRPD; assessment; indicators; convention; developmental disabilities; personal outcomes; PRISMA; self-determination; opportunities; mediation analysis; causal agency; volitional action; agentic action; action-control beliefs; choice; Default Mode Network; functional connectivity; Down syndrome; resting fMRI; Quality of Life; family quality of life; disability; early childhood intervention; conceptualization; measurement; attitudes toward ID; mainstream teachers; special-education teachers; ATTID; training; support; communication support needs; Family Quality of Life; intellectual and developmental disabilities; Family Quality of Life Scale; measure; Spanish Family Quality of Life Scales; CdVF-ER > 18; CdVF-ER &lt
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Societal views on the human rights of persons with disabilities have significantly changed over the last four decades. However, while achieving equality, autonomy, nondiscrimination, participation, and inclusion should be a priority, abuses and violations of rights often occur in the most immediate environments of people with intellectual disability. This book is intended to provide greater visibility to people with intellectual disability, as full subjects of rights and improve their quality of life from a perspective of human rights, citizenship, and contextual analysis. We discuss the role of context, the provision of inclusive environments, and the improved health status at promoting quality of life-related personal outcomes and enhancing quality of life and equality for people with intellectual disability.