The U.S. Department of Labor’s Office of Disability Employment Policy (ODEP) has released a sequal to last year’s Roadmaps for Enhancing Employment of Persons with Disabilities Through Accessible Technology (AT). Roadmaps II describes federally funded AT programs, summarizes some of the barriers that limit the use of AT by people with disabilities and makes recommendations to […]
Category: Health & Disability Newsletter
AAHD publishes an informative, timely and interesting electronic quarterly newsletter, Health & Disability, for AAHD members and others interested in the field of disability and health. All of the articles featured in the newsletter and more are made available here. Health & Disability took the year off in 2012, but will resume in 2013. To subscribe or to submit ideas for newsletter topics, please e-mail contact@dev-aahd.pantheonsite.io.
North Dakota: Off to a Great Start
The health and wellness prospects for people with disabilities in North Dakota are brighter, thanks to a new grant from the CDC. Under the direction of principal investigator Brent Askvig, Ph.D., the North Dakota Center for Persons with Disabilities (NDCPD) is working on a five-year project to promote the health and wellness of North Dakota citizens […]
Illinois and Partners: Working Toward a Common Goal
Carla Cox, MPH, CHES, of the Illinois Department of Public Health, Division of Chronic Disease Prevention and Control, talks about program goals, challenges and doing a job with meaning. What is your goal for the first year of the grant?* The goal of the Illinois Disability and Health Program is to reduce and prevent secondary conditions […]
Florida: Coming Together for Public Health
In promoting the health of people with disabilities, delivering effective health communication messages, and assessing health risks and the health status of people with disabilities, Florida faces some unique challenges. First, more than 3.2 million Floridians – 22.2 percent – have a disability1 —considerably more than the national average of 19.3 percent. And the number of […]
Oregon: Charting New Paths to Health and Happiness
The Oregon Office on Disability and Health (OODH) embraces a holistic approach to health and well-being for people with disabilities, which promotes access to quality health care, employment, education, housing, recreation, meaningful relationships, and public and private services. OODH is currently working on two exciting projects: disseminating “Disability and Public Health” to schools of public health and […]
Delaware: Making Health Strides for People With Disabilities
Alisha Raiford-Hall and Tom Kelly of Delaware’s Division of Developmental Disabilities Services (DDDS) have been hard at work. Thanks to a grant from the CDC in 2005, the division has been able to start incorporating the needs of Delawareans with disabilities into its overall Healthy People 2010 programs. As part of that effort, the Healthy Delawareans with […]
Call to Action: IOM Assessment of the Future of Disability
More than 40 million Americans live with a disability today. And unless the United States adopts smarter policies soon, the future will see far more people living with disabilities, many of them facing unnecessary restrictions that could be minimized by acting now. That’s according to a recent report prepared by the Institute of Medicine (IOM) […]
Healthy Delawareans With Disabilities: 2010
Delaware Health and Social Services has received year-one funding from the CDC to implementHealthy Delawareans With Disabilities: 2010. The Division of Developmental Disabilities Services, in formal collaboration with the Division of Public Health (DPH) and in partnership with several of its other sister agencies in Delaware Health and Social Services, will collaborate with the Delaware Developmental Disabilities […]