Ensuring Access for Patients with Disabilities in an Evolving ...

Jan Withers, MA (North Carolina Division of Services for the Deaf and Hard of Hearing), Kathy Wibberly, PhD (Mid-Atlantic Telehealth ...

Ensuring Access to Health Care for Patients With Disabilities - PMC

Patients with disabilities face barriers when they attempt to access health care. ... These barriers include physical barriers to entering health ...

Section 4. Ensuring Access for People with Disabilities

There are a number of aspects to assuring access for people with disabilities. The obvious one is the physical: designing and building or changing structures ...

"Ensuring educational access for people with disabilities is not ...

The medical and care-focused approaches characteristic of the first normative instruments on disability, adopted between the fifties and ...

Equitable Care for Patients With Disabilities

Health care professionals often lack confidence and preparedness in treating patients with disabilities effectively. Barriers such as ...

Disability and Health Inclusion Strategies - CDC

Inclusion of people with disabilities into everyday activities involves practices and policies designed to identify and remove barriers.

Improving Access to Care for People with Disabilities - CMS

The CMS Office of Minority Health works to ensure that people with disabilities receive equal access to quality health care information and ...

Access and Equity for Individuals with Disabilities - Changing Paces

The World Health Organization estimates that over 1 billion people, or about 15% of the global population, live with some form of disability.

Disability and Health Information for Healthcare Providers - CDC

Providers should ensure that accessible medical equipment is available for people with disabilities (such as scales, examination tables, or chairs). In addition ...

UN Disability Inclusion Strategy - the United Nations

What we are working on: evolving our internal systems in order to attract, recruit, retain and promote persons with disabilities in the UN workforce; building ...

The Medicaid Access Rule: A Historic Regulation to Strengthen ...

We worked closely with our colleagues at CMS to ensure that the views of people with disabilities and older adults receiving HCBS and the aging ...

How do we improve access to healthcare for people with disabilities?

'Positive discrimination' can be used to reduce waiting times to ensure that people with disabilities do not have to spend too long at the clinic, and videos, ...

Disability and Health | odphp.health.gov

Laws and policies can help communities increase access to care and improve health for people with disabilities.

Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities | OHCHR

Ensuring that the education of persons, and in particular children, who are blind, deaf or deafblind, is delivered in the most appropriate languages and modes ...

Nurses with Disability: Transforming Healthcare for All | OJIN

For people with disability, equitable access to healthcare, or the ... ensure inclusion and access. Nurse leaders have a critical role ...

Changing the Physical and Social Environment: Ensuring Access for ...

In over 50 countries, this situation has been recognized and addressed, at least to some extent, by laws that protect people with disabilities ...

Research Brief: Digital Access and Title III of the ADA

Disability inclusion is supported through the ADA, as the law provides people with disabilities a way to challenge discrimination in areas of public life such ...

Access to Support for Patients with Disabilities - Holy Cross Health

To outline the Holy Cross Health policy for ensuring access to support for patients with disabilities, including access during a declared ...

ADA Accessibility Standards - Access Board

The U.S. Access Board is a federal agency that promotes equality for people with disabilities through leadership in accessible design and the development of ...

The Evolution of the Americans With Disabilities Act

“One of the biggest things the ADA has done is let people with disabilities out,” disabilities ... ensure that all her constituents can access the ...