Disability groups win fight to be included in health equity research

The designation as a “health disparity population” allows for more funding and research into the health equity barriers disabled people face.

“The impact that COVID-19 had on disadvantaged populations, including people with disabilities, was enormous and demonstrates the critical importance of health disparities research,” Eliseo Pérez-Stable, director of the National Institute on Minority Health and Health Disparities at the National Institutes of Health,The eff0rt for disabled people to be recognized as a health disparity population is part of a broader push to improve health outcomes for people with disabilities and change...

For a long time, he said, doctors and researchers have only focused on efforts to “fix” or cure disabilities, rather than improving their overall well being.This sentiment is reflected in a National Institutes of Health effort to change its mission statement, which current states that one goal is to “reduce illness and disability.

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