10 November 2020
The Council for Intellectual Disability (CID) created the My Health Matters folder in 2018, in response to a UNSW study into preventable deaths. Since then, 2000 folders have been distributed amongst the intellectual disability community across the world.
The folder was create with the intention to mutually improve communication between health and people with intellectual disability and in doing so, have a positive effect on health outcomes.
CID are currently conducting research around the effectiveness of the resource and looking to talk with health professionals.
If you’ve had a patient use My Health Matters during an appointment we would like to hear from you.
There are 3 ways of participating:
If you participate in a 1 on 1 interview we will remunerate you for your time.
Contact:
Clare Woods – Project Officer Health
health@cid.org.au or 1800 424 065
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