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- While the number of people experiencing unsheltered homelessness has decreased over the last ten years, the number of older adults experiencing sheltered homelessness is on the rise, as we report in Housing America’s Older Adults 2019. Incomes for the lowest-income older adults have not risen as fast as rents, leaving a growing number of older adult renters at risk for homelessness as they…November 2019Environment/Context
- Training needs of professionals who serve people with IDD and mental health needs and their familiesUp to 40% of people with intellectual and developmental disabilities (IDD) experience co-occurring mental illness. Despite the prevalence of mental health needs among people with IDD, little is known about the best approaches for supporting the needs of people with IDD and co-occurring mental health challenges and their families. This uncertainty has led to the dependence on outdated and…November 2019Policy and Practice
- Digital technologies shape the way in which individuals and health systems interact to promote health and treat illness. Their propensity to exacerbate inequalities is increasingly being highlighted as a concern for public health. Personal, contextual and technological factors all interact and determine uptake and consequent use of digital technologies for health. This article reviews evidence on…October 2019Systemic Determinants
- Food insecurity is associated with limited food resources that may lead to poor nutritional intake and diet-related chronic disease. Food prescription programs offer an avenue for facilitating access to fresh and healthy nonperishable food while reducing food insecurity. The purpose of this pilot study is to examine the feasibility, perceptions, and impact of a collaborative food prescription…October 2019Services & Programs
- Housing is a major pathway through which health disparities emerge and are sustained over time. However, no existing unified conceptual model has comprehensively elucidated the relationship between housing and health equity with attention to the full range of harmful exposures, their cumulative burden and their historical production. We synthesized literature from a diverse array of disciplines…September 2019Housing Discrimination, Social/Structural Determinants, Environment/Context, Healthy Housing, Racism
- Over the past 20 years, services and supports for people with intellectual and developmental disabilities (IDD) have changed significantly. The vast majority of adults with IDD now live in home and community-based settings rather than institutions. Data are collected on the IDD population's use of public programs (e.g., Medicaid and Social Security), their places of residence, and their…September 2019Services & Programs
- Care providers are key agents in the lives of individuals with an intellectual disability (ID). The quality of their support can be affected by manifestations of stigma. This scoping review was conducted to explore studies that provide indications of care providers’ stigmatization of people with ID. Methods: A structured search was made in four databases to identify relevant studies in English-…July 2019Isms and Phobias
- The Community Preventive Services Task Force (CPSTF) recommends permanent supportive housing with Housing First (Housing First programs) to promote health equity for people who are experiencing homelessness and have a disabling condition. Evidence shows Housing First programs decrease homelessness, increase housing stability, and improve quality of life for homeless persons living…June 2019HIV, Healthy Housing
- Transitioning from high school to the next step can be both exciting and daunting. Do you remember participating in school activities, getting that first job (Staples and the ballpark concession stand for us!), studying for the SAT, and filling out college applications—all in the hopes of creating the future you imagined after high school? Maybe you waited in anticipation for a college acceptance…May 2019Education
- Our work is based on the idea that health and education outcomes are intrinsically linked. We seek to improve these outcomes collectively and across multiple projects. We developed ETR’s Health Equity Framework to help us, and others, think about improving interrelated outcomes from multiple, overlapping perspectives. (author abstract) #P4HEsummit2022April 2019Early Childhood Education
- Patients with a history of intellectual disability (ID) have been noted to experience pain more frequently and to a higher degree than the general population. Previously referred to as “mental retardation,” ID occurs in approximately 1% of the population. A diagnosis of ID is generally based upon the presence of an intelligence quotient score below a specific level, along with noted impairments…April 2019Illness/Disease/Injury/Wellbeing
- Homelessness represents an enduring public health threat facing communities across the developed world. Children, families, and marginalized adults face life course implications of housing insecurity, while communities struggle to address the extensive array of needs within heterogeneous homeless populations. Trends in homelessness remain stubbornly high despite policy initiatives to end…April 2019Environment/Context, Systemic Determinants
- Background: Patient-centered care for people with disability requires effective communication and compliance with the Americans with Disabilities Act (ADA).Objective: To understand physicians’ perspectives on communication experiences with people with disability.Design: Twenty semi-structured individual interviews. Interview recordings were transcribed verbatim for analysis.Setting: Massachusetts…March 2019Policy and Practice
- Fruit and vegetable (F&V) intake is inversely associated with obesity, which is disproportionately high in urban food deserts and low-income populations, including Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program (SNAP) participants. This cross sectional study sought to examine factors associated with food desert SNAP recipients’ F&V purchases and weight status in multi-person households. Socio-…February 2019Environmental/Community Health
- The Office of Developmental Primary Care facilitated two discussion groups in order to learn more about the experiences of people with disabilities and their families in accessing the health care system. Discussion topics included communication, personal life values, changes in or loss of function, medical decision-making, and end of life care conversations. Our ultimate purpose was to uncover…January 2019
- Poverty has long been recognized as a contributor to death and disease, but several recent trends have generated an increased focus on the link between income and health. First, income inequality in the United States has increased dramatically in recent decades, while health indicators have plateaued, and life expectancy differences by income have grown. Second, there is growing scholarly and…October 2018Services & Programs
- Background: Equitable access to health services is a key ingredient in reaching health for persons with disabilities and other vulnerable groups. So far, research on access to health services in low- and middle-income countries has largely relied on self-reported survey data. Realizing that there may be substantial discrepancies between perceived and actual access, other methods are needed for…June 2018Services & Programs
- Objective: To delineate the factors inherent in caring for patients with intellectual and developmental disabilities (IDD) that lead to complexity and to provide perspectives and techniques mapped to the phases of the clinical encounter.Sources of information: The authors of the physical health section of the 2018 Canadian consensus guidelines on the primary care of adults with IDD consisted of…April 2018Policy and Practice
- Objective: To update the 2011 Canadian guidelines for primary care of adults with intellectual and developmental disabilities (IDD).Methods: Family physicians and other health professionals experienced in the care of people with IDD reviewed and synthesized recent empirical, ecosystem, expert, and experiential knowledge. A system was developed to grade the strength of recommendations.…April 2018Policy and Practice
- The objective of this study was to assess trends in health insurance coverage, health service utilization, and health care access among working-age adults with and without disabilities before and after full implementation of the Affordable Care Act (ACA), and to identify current disability-based disparities following full implementation of the ACA. The ACA was expected to have a disproportionate…November 2017Policy and Practice
- Massachusetts state law includes a tremendous opportunity for city and town disability commissions to make their communities more accessible and more inclusive of people with disabilities. By persuading local government to adopt section 22G, commissions get access to the money collected from fines when individuals park illegally in accessible parking spaces (previously known as Handicapped…June 2017Advocacy
- The significant rise in the number of international health electives undertaken by medical students and doctors in the US, Canada and UK reflects acknowledgement of the inter-connected nature of these challenges to health systems and the drive to help solve them. However, the next generation of international volunteers often operate under a conflicting duality: whilst many of their role models…June 2017Global Health
- Too many special education students are at risk of leaving high school unprepared for the future. That’s my conclusion after making a deep dive into their backgrounds and experiences for a national study.Consider these facts:Special education students are half as likely as their peers to take college entrance tests such as the SAT.They are less likely to have paid work experience, despite…May 2017Education
- ObjectivesTo investigate mortality and its causes in adults over the age of 20 years with intellectual disability (ID).Design, setting and participantsRetrospective population-based standardised mortality of the ID and Comparison cohorts. The ID cohort comprised 42 204 individuals who registered for disability services with ID as a primary or secondary diagnosis from 2005 to 2011 in New South…February 2017Illness/Disease/Injury/Wellbeing
- The environmental and health consequences of climate change, which disproportionately affect low-income countries and poor people in high-income countries, profoundly affect human rights and social justice. Environmental consequences include increased temperature, excess precipitation in some areas and droughts in others, extreme weather events, and increased sea level. These consequences…November 2015Climate Change, Environmental Injustice
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