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Ensuring Accessibility of Health Care Facilities and Providers

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Source: CMS.Gov & Florida Disability and Health Program The CMS Office of Minority Health Issue Briefs offer insight and examination into a variety of health and health disparity topics. The briefs are a concise summary of a particular issue and examine policies that impact the quality of and access to health care for minority and disadvantaged populations. Issue …

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Resources | Protect Our Care IL

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Source: Resources | Protect Our Care IL Protect Our Care – Illinois is a statewide coalition of health care advocates, providers, consumers, and workers, joining together to prevent the repeal of the Affordable Care Act (ACA), prevent disastrous changes to Medicaid, and protect and expand access to quality affordable health care. We know the crusade …

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Is Your Sunscreen Living Up To Its Promise?

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Source: Science Friday 6/9/17 Sunscreen use is on the rise, but so are cases of skin cancer. That’s because a poor-quality sunscreen might keep you from getting a sunburn, but it won’t shield skin from UVA rays that cause melanoma. Recently, scientists with the Environmental Working Group tested almost 1,500 sunscreens, moisturizers, and lip balms …

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Med student fills the gap in disability training

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Source: theSOURCE Class Acts-Human Health: Gallin develops curriculum aimed at improving care for patients with disabilities By Kristina Sauerwein May 5, 2017 During her first year at Washington University School of Medicine in St. Louis, Hilary Gallin studied racial and gender disparities in health care. She learned about various physicians’ approaches to community and global medicine. …

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Women in the U.S. with physical &/or sensory disabilities more likely to be sterilized than women without disabilities

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Source: Disability and Health Journal Abstract Background Female sterilization accounts for 50% of all contraceptive use in the U.S. The extent to which U.S. women with physical and/or sensory disabilities have undergone female sterilization is unknown. Objective Our primary objective was to determine the prevalence of sterilization for women with physical/sensory disabilities, and compare this …

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“They just said inappropriate contact.” What do service users hear when staff talk about sex and relationships?

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Source: JARID Abstract Background Research into how people with intellectual disabilities (ID) pursue intimate relationships in care settings presents some contradictory findings; despite increasingly liberal staff views, service users experience significant restrictions. This study attempts to explore this gap within a secure hospital, examining service user’s representations of staff discourses about sexuality and intimate relationships. …

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Let’s talk about dental inequality in America

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Source: The Week (Excerpted from an article that originally appeared in The Washington Post) Mary Jordan and Kevin Sullivan Two hours before sunrise, Dee Matello joined the line outside the Wicomico Civic Center in Salisbury, Maryland, where hundreds of people in hoodies, heavy coats, and wool blankets braced against the wind. Inside, reclining dental chairs were …

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Good Food Great Kids-Making Practice and Policy Work for Farm to Early Childcare & Education

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Source: PFC social impact advisors Good Food Great Kids-Making Practice and Policy Work for Farm to Early Childcare & Education According to Harvard University’s Center on the Developing Child, “The science of child development now helps us to see healthy development as a causal chain— policies and programs across the public and private sectors affect …

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Knowledge and expectations of direct support professionals towards effects of psychotropic drug use in people with ID

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To achieve sufficient collaboration of intellectual disability support professionals in reducing inappropriate psychotropic drug use of clients, vocational educational training is needed. Source: Knowledge and expectations of direct support professionals towards effects of psychotropic drug use in people with intellectual disabilities – Kuijper – 2017 – Journal of Applied Research in Intellectual Disabilities – Wiley …

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Pain and pain assessment in people with ID

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Pain and pain assessment in people with intellectual disability: Issues and challenges in practice Source: Pain and pain assessment in people with intellectual disability: Issues and challenges in practice – Doody – 2017 – British Journal of Learning Disabilities – Wiley Online Library Accessible summary Pain is difficult to identify when people cannot communicate. If …

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