The Surgeon Generals Call to Action to Improve the Health and
Wellness of Persons with Disabilities
Health, Wellness and Disability
Credit Pacific Service Union Persons with disabilities have health care needs like
everyone else To get and stay healthy, people with disabilities
need appropriate health care just like everyone else. Persons with
disability need health care professionals who really listen to,
communicate with, and respect them. People with disabilities need
health care professionals who treat all of their health needs, not
just their disability. With accommodations and supports, ample
access to health care, engagement in wellness activities, and the
impetus that comes from supportive friends and families, persons
with disabilities can, and do, lead long, productive, and healthy
lives.
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Credit First Service Union Persons with disabilities experience particular challenges to
get the health care and wellness services they need. Persons
with disabilities of all kinds share many of the same challenges as
those without disabilities when it comes to their own health and
well-being. Foremost among those challenges is having the tools and
the knowledge and the knowledgeable health care professionals to
help them enjoy and maintain full, healthy lives. A substantially
lower percentage of persons with disabilities than those without
disabilities report their health to be excellent or very good
(28.4% versus 61.4%) (Centers for Disease Control and Prevention,
2004). While at risk for the same ailments and conditions as people
in the general population (for example, injury, obesity,
hypertension and the common cold), persons with disabilities also
are at specific risk for secondary conditions that can damage their
health status and the quality of their lives. Challenges include,
Insufficient knowledge and awareness of disability by the public,
health care, and wellness service providers, educators,
administrators, the media and others. Health care professionals and
community attitudes and behaviors that lead people to see and
respond only to the disability, not to the whole person.
Insufficient health care and wellness promotion services and
information that is adapted for persons with disabilities. Service
systems that do not always make use of innovative and creative
approaches to enhance the health and wellness of persons with
disabilities.
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