Description
Book SynopsisOver 20 million American women and girls have some form of disability. Women with disabilities often have difficulty accessing health care services, and the quality of the health care they do receive is often worse than the care received by women without disabilities and men with disabilities.
Using an integrated care framework as a foundation, authors in this book tackle the structural, environmental, and social barriers that prevent women with disabilities from accessing effective and culturally competent care and services, and offer plans for action to improve wellness, health promotion, and disease prevention among this broad yet consistently underserved population.
Table of ContentsContributors
Foreword
Wanda K. Jones
Acknowledgments
Introduction
Shari E. Miles-Cohen and Caroline Signore
I. The Big Picture
- Health Disparities and Equity: The Intersection of Disability, Health, and Sociodemographic Characteristics Among Women
Margaret A. Nosek
- Access to Care: The Heart of Equity in Health Care
Marsha Saxton
- Health Promotion and Disease Prevention for Women With Disabilities
Susan Parish, Monika Mitra, and Lisa Iezzoni
II. Delivery of Care
- Achieving Equity in the Health of Women With Disabilities Through Telehealth: Challenges and Benefits
Anju Khubchandani and Denise Thew
- Reproductive and Sexual Health for Women With Disabilities
Caroline Signore
- Oral Health of Women With Disabilities
H. Barry Waldman and Steven P. Perlman
III. Specific Populations
- Across the Lifecourse: Youth and Aging With Disability
Judy Simms-Cendan and Adam Golden
- Integrated Health Care for Women of Color With Disabilities
Rosaly Correa-de-Araujo
- "We Exist": The Health and Well-Being of Sexual Minority Women and Trans People With Disabilities
Lesley A. Tarasoff
- Parenting With Disability: Experiences of Disabled Women
Erin E. Andrews and Kara Ayers
- Integrated Primary Behavioral Health Care for Women Veterans With Disabilities
Colleen Clemency Cordes, Linda R. Mona, and LaDonna C. Saxon
- Coming Together to End Violence Against Women and Girls With Disabilities
Julie Williams and Lyndsay Colvin
IV. Recommendations
- An Agenda to Eliminate Inequities
Shari E. Miles-Cohen and Caroline Signore
Afterword
Gloria L. Krahn
Index
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