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Introduction: People with intellectual disability experience poorer health outcomes compared with the general population, partly due to the difficulties of accessing preventive care in primary care settings. There is good evidence that structured annual health assessments can enhance quality of care for people with intellectual disability, and their use has become recommended policy in several high-income countries. However, uptake remains low. The Theoretical Domains Framework (TDF) offers a conceptual structure for understanding barriers to implementation and has been usefully applied to inf...

Study investigators found that health care professionals who were assigned male at birth and practiced in the Western region of the United States were more likely to prescribe PrEP to this high-risk population.

Hand hygiene and adherence to infection prevention measures in outpatient clinics may improve through behavioral interventions.

"It has been shown that using theory to understand the mechanisms of action of intervention strategies improves the effectiveness of interventions..." It is well established that changing behaviour is complex, and a systematic approach is required to understand the factors that influence vaccine uptake.

November 1 is National Brush Your Teeth Day. School-based toothbrushing programs may get more students to improve their oral health habits.