RT Book, Section
A1 Smeltzer, Suzanne C.
SR Print(0)
ID 1187769853
T1 Disability: A Major Healthcare Inequity
T2 Delivering Quality Healthcare for People with Disability
YR 2021
FD 2021
PB Sigma Theta Tau International
PP New York, NY
SN 9781948057455
LK apn.mhmedical.com/content.aspx?aid=1187769853
RD 2024/10/06
AB Disability  affects  more  than  1  billion  people  globally.  These  include  more  than  61  million  people  living  in  the  United  States.  This  translates  to  one  in  every  four  noninstitutionalized  residents  of  the  US  (Okoro,  Hollis,  Cyrus,  &  Griffin-Blake,  2018;  Office  of  the  Surgeon  General  &  Office  on  Disability,  2005;  World  Health  Organization  [WHO],  2011).  The  prevalence  of  disability  continues  to  increase  over  time  (Iezzoni,  Kurtz,  &  Rao,  2014;  Okoro  et  al.,  2018).  Still,  these  statistics  likely  underestimate  the  number  of  people  with  disability  because  they  do  not  include  those  who  live  in  institutions  or  are  active  duty  military  personnel.  Based  on  these  statistics,  the  population  of  people  with  disability  is  the  largest  minority  group  (United  Nations,  2019).