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Most of the literature related to service user participation in general, or specifically to people with learning difficulties, tends to approach the topic with a focus on broad issues of rights and empowerment. Comparatively little literature and research appears to have linked the issues of participation and the health needs of people with learning difficulties, despite the fact that the link between institutional service provision and ill health, both physical and mental, in people with learning difficulties is well established (Greenhalgh, 1994). It is also in spite of the fact that there is an extant literature from within the medical, nursing and psychology fields highlighting the positive effects of service user participation on health and wellbeing (Brearley, 1990). Furthermore, there is a growing recognition that the shift from hospital- to community-based residential care, and thus from a medicalised to a social model of care, has resulted in a downplaying of health issues for people with learning difficulties that, at worst, borders on neglect (Greenhalgh, 1994; Rodgers, 1994; Turner, 1996).
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Goble, C. (2000). Partnership in Residential Settings. In: Astor, R., Jeffereys, K. (eds) Positive Initiatives for People with Learning Difficulties. Palgrave, London. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-0-333-98659-2_5
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