China-Sweden Partnership: Areas of Ongoing Development in Intellectual Disabilities

Autor/inn/en	Ericsson, Kent; Gebre-Medhin, Mehari; Sonnander, Karin
Titel	China-Sweden Partnership: Areas of Ongoing Development in Intellectual Disabilities
Quelle	In: Journal of Policy and Practice in Intellectual Disabilities, 5 (2008) 2, S.112-117 (6 Seiten) PDF als Volltext Verfügbarkeit
Sprache	englisch
Dokumenttyp	gedruckt; online; Zeitschriftenaufsatz
ISSN	1741-1122
DOI	10.1111/j.1741-1130.2008.00156.x
Schlagwörter	Mental Retardation; Foreign Countries; International Cooperation; Children; Research; Disabilities; Nutrition; Screening Tests; Disability Identification; Developmental Stages; Rehabilitation; Developing Nations; Rural Areas; China; Sweden + Suchen Sie Ihr Suchwort? Geistige Behinderung; Ausland; Internationale Kooperation; Internationale Zusammenarbeit; Child; Kind; Kinder; Forschung; Handicap; Behinderung; Ernährung; Screening-Verfahren; Developing country; Developing countries; Entwicklungsland; Rural area; Ländlicher Raum; Schweden
Abstract	At the initiative of the Government of the People's Republic of China, a letter of intent concerning a joint undertaking for studying children with intellectual disability in China was formulated together with the Swedish Government's Ministry of Social Affairs in the early 1990s. The Swedish Board of Health and Welfare invited Uppsala University to set up a consulting team through the Centre for Disability Research. On the Chinese side, the task was given to China Disabled Persons' Federation (CDPF), whose overriding task is the representation of and guarding the legal rights of persons with disabilities. Under the auspice of the CDPF, researchers from China and Sweden jointly identified three areas of work: iodine deficiency, developmental screening, and rehabilitation. This article describes the project's activities within the Sino-Swedish Project, initiated in 1995. The Sino-Swedish Project was implemented in the least developed and consequently poorest western/northwestern interior parts of the country and overall work was carried out on a county-level (i.e., target areas were predominately rural albeit located in townships and villages). The experiences gained have formed the basis for further implementation throughout the country. (As Provided).
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Update	2017/4/10