A review of inclusion of people with disabilities in current efforts to reduce racial and ethnic health disparities.

2012

We conducted a review of the extent to which people with disabilities are included in current efforts to address racial and ethnic health disparities. We collected abstracts from three sources: 1) currently-funded federal grants in the NIH RePORTER database; 2) current projects funded by several foundations that have been highly involved in work related to health disparities; and 3) current activities of offices on minority health and health disparities within state health departments. Abstracts were reviewed to identify those that included interventions addressing racial or ethnic health disparities among adults. Qualifying abstracts were further reviewed for explicit mention of adults with disabilities as a target group for intervention efforts. Only a miniscule proportion of the current efforts to address racial and ethnic health disparities considered the additional role of disability.

health disparities, race, ethnicity, disabled persons

Conference presentations and posters presented

Professionals

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