Considering disability and health: Reflections on the Healthy People 2020 Midcourse Review

The Healthy People 2020 (HP2020) Midcourse Review (MCR) presents an opportunity for professionals in the disability and health field to contemplate preliminary progress toward achieving specific health objectives. The MCR showed notable progress in access to primary care, appropriate services for co...

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Published in:Disability and health journal 2018-07, Vol.11 (3), p.333-338
Main Authors: Sinclair, Lisa Bundara, Fox, Michael H, Jonas, Bruce S, Berry, Hugh G, Quatrano, Louis A, McGowan, Angela K, Peacock, Georgina
Format: Article
Language:English
Subjects:
Achievement
Delivery of Health Care
Disabled Persons
Employment
Goals
Health Promotion
Health Status Disparities
Healthy People Programs
Humans
Mental Health
Policy
Primary Health Care
Stress, Psychological
Unemployment
United States
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Summary:The Healthy People 2020 (HP2020) Midcourse Review (MCR) presents an opportunity for professionals in the disability and health field to contemplate preliminary progress toward achieving specific health objectives. The MCR showed notable progress in access to primary care, appropriate services for complex conditions associated with disability, expansion of health promotion programs focusing on disability, improving mental health, and reducing the unemployment rate among job seekers with disabilities. This commentary presents potential considerations, at least in part, for such progress including increased access to health care, greater awareness of appropriate services for complex conditions, and opportunities for societal participation. Additional considerations are provided to address the lack of progress in employment among this population -- a somewhat different measure than that for unemployment. Continuing to monitor these objectives will help inform programs, policies, and practices that promote the health of people with disabilities as measured by HP2020.
ISSN:1936-6574
1876-7583
DOI:10.1016/j.dhjo.2018.04.001