Factors affecting the health of people with mental retardation and ways of their prevention

S.V. Letunovskaya

Journal of Modern Foreign Psychology
2013. Vol. 2, no. 2, 51–62
ISSN: 2304-4977 (online)

Factors affecting the health of people with mental retardation and ways of their prevention

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Abstract

Empirical evidence obtained by researchers in recent years indicates the necessity of increasing the efficiency of prophylaxes in people with mental retardation. In a related move foreign psychology and pedagogy are fully engaged in study of this category of people. The review presented in this study regards the sedentary lifestyle, overweight and obesity, tobacco smoking, insecure sex, stress in children and adults with intellectual retardation; their incidence, peculiarities of their pressure; methods of preventing their negative influences.

General Information

Keywords: prophylaxis of divergence in health status; health risk factors; people with intellectual disabilities; sedentary lifestyle; overweight; obesity; insecure sex; decrease of the negative impact of risk factors

Journal rubric: Medical Psychology

Article type: review article

Published 28.06.2013

For citation: Letunovskaya, S.V. (2013). Factors affecting the health of people with mental retardation and ways of their prevention. Journal of Modern Foreign Psychology, 2(2), 51–62. (In Russ.). URL: https://psyjournals.ru/en/journals/jmfp/archive/2013_n2/61171 (viewed: 18.07.2025)

License: CC BY-NC 4.0

References

Navyki, neobkhodimye dlya zdorov'ya [Electronic resource] / Vsemirnaya Organizatsiya Zdravookhraneniya URL: http://www.who.int/school_youth_health/media/sch_skills4health_russian.pdf.

Information About the Authors

Svetlana V. Letunovskaya, Candidate of Science (Education), associate professor of the laboratory «Psychology of abnormal development», Moscow State University of psychology and education (MSUPE), Moscow, Russian Federation, e-mail: let7777@yandex.ru

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