Where in health is disability? : public health practices to include people with disabilities

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• Personal Author:
  Benjamin, Georges C. ; Graham, Catherine Leigh ; Hootman, Jennifer M. ; Krahn, Gloria L. ; Mitra, Monika ; Popovic, Tanya ; Iskander, John K. ; Laird, Susan
• Corporate Authors:
  Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (U.S.). Office of the Associate Director for Communication. ; National Center on Birth Defects and Developmental Disabilities (Centers for Disease Control and Prevention). Division of Human Development and Disability. ; National Center for Chronic Disease Prevention and Health Promotion (U.S.). Division of Population Health.
• Description:
  Tuesday, September 19, 2017
  
  This session of Grand Rounds explored opportunities for optimal quality of life for individuals with disabilities. One in 6 adult Americans lives with a disability when defined by a limitation in function. Many are at higher risk for multiple chronic conditions, injuries, and increased vulnerability during disasters. Comparatively, people with disabilities are 4 times more likely to report their health to be fair/poor and 2.5 times more likely to have unmet health care needs than non–disabled peers. $400 billion is spent annually on disability-related health expenditures. Public health can help change this by promoting wellness and preventing disease in people with disabilities. CDC′s approach for a population who experiences diverse functional limitations is to assure that mainstream public health surveys, programs, and policies include people with disabilities across the lifespan, a method that can be modeled by state and federal programs.
  
  
• Subjects:
  Disabled Persons Lectures. -- Webcasts. Public Health Practice
• Series:
  Public Health Grand Rounds
• Document Type:
  Text
• Genre:
  Lectures ; Webinar
• Place as Subject:
  United States
• Citation:
  Public Health grand rounds ; 2012 December 18
• Collection(s):
  Stephen B. Thacker CDC Library
• Main Document Checksum:
  urn:sha-512:24c43ad2469a6e4d77a89018015a7a0e624d39fce7b4d7c0dbed9c53a6e03b5f9524d04e66601d6f2e36e84377fcf6af37d1d83170ccf15c804ab7912ba3af0a
• Download URL:
  https://stacks.cdc.gov/view/cdc/50757/cdc_50757_DS1.pdf
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