Out of Sight, Out of Mind? The Inclusion and Identification of People with Intellectual Disability in Public Health Research

Adults with intellectual disability experience substantial health inequities. The authors sought to investigate the extent to which a sample of international public health research includes and identifies people with intellectual disability. Among eligible articles in these selected public health journals, it was found that cohort studies passively exclude people with intellectual disability, while randomized controlled trials (RCTs) actively exclude this population.