“Preventative Women’s Health Care For Women With Disabilities”

Guidelines for General Practitioners

“The basic health care needs of women with disabilities are identical to the general female population, yet they do not receive the same level of preventative health care”

These guidelines are designed to assist general practitioners to provide preventative health care to women with disabilities. They are based on the best evidence available at the time of publication and are intended to provide a guide to clinical practice.

The Centre for Developmental Disability Studies was contracted by the NSW Cervical Screening Program to develop these guidelines. A working group prepared draft guidelines based on the literature findings and sought comment from: RACGP, Divisions of General Practice; NSW Cervical Screening Program; FPA Health; consumer representation from the Council for Intellectual Disability and People with Disabilities Inc. and interested specialists.

The guidelines have been focus tested with general practitioners and women with disabilities and an education session has been designed around the concepts and issues found in the guidelines. An evaluation of these education sessions is currently in progress.

Copies of the guidelines and the literature review on which they were based can be downloaded or ordered below.

Preventative Women’s Health Care for Women with Disabilities Guidelines for General Practitioners	Preventative Women’s Health Care for Women with Disabilities Guidelines for General Practitioners Background and Literature Review

A brochure for women with disabilities can be downloaded below.

Preventative Women’s Health Care for Women with Disabilities