Disability impacts all of us

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• Corporate Authors:
  National Center on Birth Defects and Developmental Disabilities (Centers for Disease Control and Prevention)
• Description:
  61 million adults in the United States live with a disability ; • 26 percent (one in 4) of adults in the United States have some type of disability. ; • The percentage of people living with disabilities is highest in the South. ; Percentage of adults with functional disability types: ; • 13.7 percent of people with a disability have a mobility disability with seriousdifficulty walking or climbing stairs. ; • 10.8 percent of people with a disability have a cognition disability with serious difficulty concentrating, remembering or making decisions. ; • 6.8 percent of people with a disability have an independent living disability with difficulty doing errands alone. ; • 5.9 percent of people with a disability are deaf or have serious difficulty hearing ; • 4.6 percent of people with a disability have a vision disability with blindness or serious difficulty seeing even when wearing glasses. ; • 3.6 percent of people with a disability have a self-care disability with difficulty dressing or bathing. ; Disability and communities. ; Disability is especially common in these groups, older adults, women and minorites. ; • 2 in 5 adults age 65 years and older have a disability ; • 1 in 4 women have a disability. ; • 2 in 5 non-Hispanic American Indians/ Alaska Natives have a disability. ; Disability and health. ; Adults living with disabilities are more likely to be obese, smoke, have heart disease and diabetes: ; • 38.2 percent of adults with a disability are obese while 26.2 percent of adults without a disability are obese. ; • 28.2 percent of adults with a disability smoke while 13.4 percent of adults without a disability smoke. ; • 11.5 percent of adults with a disability have heart disease while 3.8 percent of adults without a disability have heart disease. ; • 16.3 percent of adults with a disability have diabetes while 7.2 percent of adults with a disability have diabetes. ; Disability and Health Care Access ; Health care access barriers for working-age adults include ; • 1 in 3 adults with disabilities 18 to 44 years do not have a usual health care provider ; • 1 in 3 adults with disabilities 18 to 44 years have an unmet health care need because of cost in the past year ; • 1 in 4 adults with disabilities 45 to 64 years did not have a routine check-up in the past year ; Making a difference. ; Public health is for all of us. ; Join CDC and its partners as we work together to improve the health of people living with disabilities. ; CDC and its partners work together to improve the lives of people with disabilities by: ; • Promoting healthy living, ; • Monitoring public health data ; • Researching and reducing health disparities ; • Building inclusive health program ; • Improving access to health care. ; Brought to you by the National Center on Birth Defects and Developmental Disabilities. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention ; disabilities_impacts_all_of_us.pdf
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• Subjects:
  • Persons with Disabilities
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• Genre:
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  https://stacks.cdc.gov/view/cdc/58425/cdc_58425_DS1.pdf
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  Stephen B. Thacker CDC Library
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