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Millions of people around the world live with an intellectual disability, where the estimated prevalence in higher-income countries is between 1 and 3%. In Mexico alone, according to INDESOL (National Social Development Institute), some 2 925 000 people live with some type of intellectual disability. These conditions have an important social and economic impact, particularly because they can be accompanied by family-level psychological problems, discrimination, catastrophic costs that are not covered by the State due to the lack of universal access to health care and perhaps, most especially, lack of appropriate social services, principally educational programs focusing on social and vocational integration. In addition, people with intellectual disabilities have a greater risk of experiencing physical and mental health problems and are vulnerable to chronic disease at an earlier age, among other factors, due to a high prevalence of sedentary lifestyles.

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