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Women with Disabilities as a Health Disparity Population

About the Webcast

Women with disabilities face significant disparities in health and access to healthcare compared to women in the general population. Unfortunately, this fact is rarely acknowledged by institutions and researchers dedicated to examining health disparities, resulting in a lack of funding and attention to discovering strategies for removing these inequities. Dr. Nosek will present current and emerging characteristics of the population of women with disabilities and discuss six areas of gender- and disability-related health disparities, including the disproportionate prevalence of common health conditions, lack of health insurance, barriers to healthcare, barriers to preventive health services, inappropriate treatment in healthcare settings, and lack of health information. She will offer five pathways to change, through advocacy for single-payer national health insurance, enforcement of the Americans with Disabilities Act, and actions by people with disabilities, healthcare professionals, educators, and researchers, and the print and broadcast media.

This webcast is supported through the National Center for the Dissemination of Disability Research (NCDDR), which is funded by the National Institute on Disability and Rehabilitation Research (NIDRR) in the U.S. Department of Education, and is supported in part by ILRU. The opinions and views expressed are those of the presenters and no endorsement by the funding agency should be inferred.

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