The Guide to Community Preventive Services and Disability Inclusion

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• Alternative Title:
  Am J Prev Med
• Personal Author:
  Hinton, Cynthia F. ; Kraus, Lewis E. ; Richards, T. Anne ; Fox, Michael H. ; Campbell, Vincent A.
• Description:
  Introduction
  
  Approximately 40 million people in the U.S. identify as having a serious disability, and people with disabilities experience many health disparities compared with the general population. The Guide to Community Preventive Services (The Community Guide) identifies evidence-based programs and policies recommended by the Community Preventive Services Task Force (Task Force) to promote health and prevent disease. The Community Guide was assessed to answer the questions: are Community Guide public health intervention recommendations applicable to people with disabilities, and are adaptations required?
  
  Methods
  
  An assessment of 91 recommendations from The Community Guide was conducted for 15 health topics by qualitative analysis involving three data approaches: an integrative literature review (years 1980–2011), key informant interviews, and focus group discussion during 2011.
  
  Results
  
  Twenty-six recommended interventions would not need any adaptation to be of benefit to people with disabilities. Forty-one recommended interventions could benefit from adaptations in communication and technology; 33 could benefit from training adaptations; 31 from physical accessibility adaptations; and 16 could benefit from other adaptations, such as written policy changes and creation of peer support networks. Thirty-eight recommended interventions could benefit from one or more adaptations to enhance disability inclusion.
  
  Conclusions
  
  As public health and healthcare systems implement Task Force recommendations, identifying and addressing barriers to full participation for people with disabilities is important so that interventions reach the entire population. With appropriate adaptations, implementation of recommendations from The Community Guide could be successfully expanded to address the needs of people with disabilities.
  
  
• Keywords:
  Community Health Services Disabled Persons Focus Groups Health Services Accessibility Health Services Needs And Demand Humans Interviews As Topic Preventive Health Services Public Health United States
• Source:
  Am J Prev Med. 53(6):898-903
• Pubmed ID:
  28869093
• Pubmed Central ID:
  PMC5769691
• Document Type:
  Journal Article
• Funding:
  CC999999/ImCDC/Intramural CDC HHSUnited States/ ; U38 HM000520/HM/NCHM CDC HHSUnited States/
• Volume:
  53
• Issue:
  6
• Collection(s):
  CDC Public Access
• Main Document Checksum:
  urn:sha256:81f964f0d2f0cb5f92abfde3fac97e3e53077ed8cfbfc1ba0e7319cbfc229357
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  https://stacks.cdc.gov/view/cdc/50884/cdc_50884_DS1.pdf
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