Children with disabilities
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- Created on: 03-02-22 10:17
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- Children with disabliities
- Improvements in technology leading to improvements in treatments which in turn leads to increased life expectancy in children born with disabilities
- Imrproved health surveillance programmes available such as availabilty of vaccination programmes.
- Greater understanding and awareness of disabilities such as autistic spectrum disorder (AS) leading to improvements in disagnosis and thus increased the numbers of disabled children on record.
- Advances in medicine- The disocery of new drugs meaning children can livee longer with disabilities such as systic fibrosis
- Increased survival rates at brith linked to improvements in antenatal care - problems can be picked up while baby is in utero and so preventative action can be taken, e.g. baby delivered via caesaren section avoiding the trauma of natural dilvery which a baby with a disability might not have survived.
- Imrpoved access to specialist care and services means children with disabilities are getting specialist care and expert support where needed and so are living longer as a result
- Better knowledge and understanding of importance of positive lifestyle choices means children with disabilities, like all other groups in the population can benefit and so lieve longer
- Improved standards of living, e.g. better nutrition and better housing conditions mean that children with disabilities who may be compromised have increase life expectancy
- Women are delaying childbirth until later in life. This leads to an increased risk of Down Syndrome.
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