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Access and Coordination of Health Care Service for People With Disabilities

Karen Hwang

University of Medicine and Dentistry of New Jersey-New Jersey Medical and School Kessler Medical Rehabilitation Research and Education Center, West Orange, New Jersey, khwang{at}kmrrec.org

Mark Johnston

University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee

David Tulsky

Kessler Medical Rehabilitation Research and Education Center, West Orange, New Jersey and University of Medicine and Dentistry of New Jersey-New Jersey Medical School

Ken Wood

Kessler Medical Rehabilitation Research and Education Center, West Orange, New Jersey and University of Medicine and Dentistry of New Jersey-New Jersey Medical School

Trevor Dyson-Hudson

Kessler Medical Rehabilitation Research and Education Center, West Orange, New Jersey and University of Medicine and Dentistry of New Jersey-New Jersey Medical School

Eugene Komaroff

Kessler Medical Rehabilitation Research and Education Center, West Orange, New Jersey and University of Medicine and Dentistry of New Jersey-New Jersey Medical School

Individuals with disabilities often have multiple complex medical and nonmedical needs. Furthermore, in the current facility-directed health care system, they are at enhanced risk of receiving poorly coordinated, suboptimal care. This is especially problematic because individuals with disabilities face multiple barriers to receiving quality health care services, ranging from structural barriers (e.g., physical access to doctors' offices) to procedural barriers (e.g., difficulty scheduling appointments, problems obtaining insurance coverage). By contrast, a consumer-directed approach to health care (distinct from facility-directed health care) can be effectual, cost-effective, and subjectively satisfying. This brief commentary addresses the importance of a consumer-directed approach to the delivery of health care to individuals with disabilities and the need for specific assessments of the experiences of people with disabilities regarding their care. As such, it proposes recommendations for future policy interventions.

Key Words: disability services • government disability programs • access to health care

This version was published on June 1, 2009

Journal of Disability Policy Studies, Vol. 20, No. 1, 28-34 (2009)
DOI: 10.1177/1044207308315564
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