More than sixty-one million Americans have disabilities, and increasing evidence
documents that they experience health care disparities. Although many factors likely …

Health professionals need to understand the human rights and health needs of disabled
people. This review of evidence on interventions demonstrates that a range of often …

Background Research suggests there is a high prevalence of physical and mental ill health
among individuals with intellectual disabilities and that staff working in mainstream …

More than thirty years since the enactment of the Americans with Disabilities Act (ADA),
people with disability continue to experience health care disparities. The ADA mandates that …

Purpose/Objective: Health care providers' attitudes of marginalized groups can be key
factors that contribute to health care access and outcome disparities because of their …

The purposes of this perspective article are:(1) to explore models of disability from the
perspective of the academic discipline of disability studies (DS),(2) to consider the paradox …

According to the World Report on Disability, physicians worldwide generally lack training
about caring for persons with disabilities, thus frequently compromising their health care …

Disability civil rights laws require equitable treatment of the approximately sixty-one million
Americans with disability. However, federal reports and numerous research studies indicate …

The COVID-19 era exposes what was already a crisis in the medical profession: structural
racism, ageism, sexism, classism, and ableism resulting in healthcare disparities for Persons …

Objective To explore the perinatal experiences of women with physical disabilities (WWPD)
and their associated recommendations for maternity care clinicians to improve care. Design …