Targeting health care improvement for persons with disabilities

Targeting health care improvement for persons with disabilities.

Histories of persons with disabilities only started being widely told in the last few decades, and often they are not happy. Discrimination, disenfranchisement, and even outright hostility reach back to Biblical times. The forced isolation of many persons with disabilities over the centuries has obliterated their traces. Leaping forward two millennia, enormous strides have certainly been taken,...

Medicaid Managed Care for Persons with Disabilities: a Closer Look

Discounting the Cost of Future Care for Persons with Disabilities

To calculate the expected present value (EPV) of a plaintiff's lifetime cost of care we require a survival distribution or a life table. Several methods for producing an approximate distribution are currently used. The most common of these may be "rating up": a plaintiff with a reduced life expectancy is assigned a rated age, older than the actual age, chosen to give the correct life expectancy...

Health indicators for persons with intellectual disabilities in Europe

Introduction: People with intellectual disabilities comprise an estimated five million persons in the EU 27 member states. Evidence suggests that people in this group show negative disparities in health status and in access to optimal health care. They are more likely to incur secondary health conditions and thus report increased morbidity and poorer health status. Higher rates of obesity, ment...

Access to health care of persons with disabilities as an indicator of equity in health systems

Malcolm MacLachlan, PhD, is a professor at the Centre for Global Health and in the School of Psychology, Trinity College Dublin, Dublin, Ireland. Hasheem Mannan, PhD, is a research fellow at the Centre for Global Health and in the School of Psychology, Trinity College Dublin, Dublin. Eilish McAuliffe, PhD, is director of the Centre for Global Health and a senior lecturer in the School of Medici...