Health Care Access and Quality for People with Disabilities: A Toolkit for Interagency Collaboration

The ICDR’s Health Care Access and Quality for People with Disabilities toolkit provides resources for future research on health care access and equity to address the health disparity issues that people with disabilities face. The toolkit includes an overview of federal programs and research, best practices, and areas for future research on health care access and quality for people with disabilities. Examples of areas for future research include access to adaptive equipment, the impact of delaying medical care due to cost, local approaches to resolving access challenges, development of a cultural competency model for addressing health care, and measuring the cost as a nation of not successfully caring for people with disabilities.