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updated 4.07.09

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Service Dogs

Working animals that help people live, work and play, what they do and how we should treat them while on the job! View the video Partners in Independence by Ed and Toni Eames (www.iaadp.org) now!

5 “G’s”Getting Access to Health Care for People with Physical Disabilities

This article highlights 5 steps you can take to increase your chances of getting the health care you need. PDF (499 KB), Word (253 KB)

Using a Fitness Center Does Not Have to be an Exercise in Frustration: Tips for People with Mobility and Visual Disabilities

This article describes some of the usability barriers experienced by people with mobility and visual disabilities in fitness facilities. PDF (449 KB), Word (163 KB)

Making Preventive Health Care Work for You—A Resource Guide for People with Physical Disabilities

This Guide helps make preventive health care work for you. Designed with input from both consumers and health care providers, this Guide offers important information, tools, and resources to help you. Braille Ready File (128 KB), Large Print Word (848 KB), Word (875 KB), PDF (797 KB)

The Pathway™ Series: Breast Care CD-ROM

A training series on CD-ROM about providing preventative health care services for disabled women.

Getting the Right Gear: Taking Charge of Obtaining Durable Medical Equipment

Getting your durable medical equipment (DME) can be a challenging and time consuming process. This guide can help to make the process go a little faster, and reduce the chance of denial of coverage by your health insurance carrier.
Click here to read the guide.

Emergency Evacuation Preparedness Guide

This guide, available in a variety of formats, focuses on developing emergency evacuation preparedness plans that take into account the needs of people with disabilities and activity limitations. Text (96 KB) Web version, PDF (372 KB), Word (508 KB)

Emergency Health Information: Savvy Health Care Consumer Series

This booklet guides you through developing your emergency health information. You should keep copies of this information in your wallet (behind driver's license or official identification card) and emergency kits. It tells rescuers important information about you if they find you unconscious, or unable to provide information. It contains information about your medications, equipment, allergies, communication difficulties, preferred treatment and medical providers, and important contact people. Word (212KB), PDF (240KB)

"Aging with a Disability" Presentations

In March, 2003, the Center for Disabilities and the Health Professions partnered with the Rehabilitation Research and Training Center on Aging with a Disability to present: "Aging with a Disability: Putting Research into Practice and Education." Click here to view the presentations.

Accessible Health Care Briefs

The Center for Disabilities and the Health Professions "Accessible Health Care" series is designed to educate managed care organizations, health care professionals, community organizations, advocates, and people with disabilities.

This series includes discussions, examples, illustrations, and resource information for improving access to health care services, programs, and products. Subjects include:

Providing Primary Health Care for People with Physical Disabilities: A Survey of California Physicians

Beginning with the Americans with Disabilities Act of 1990 an awareness of the need for equal access to health care for people with disabilities was established. Moreover, the promotion of health for people with disabilities, the prevention of secondary conditions, and the elimination of disparities between people with and without disabilities have been ongoing goals of federal legislation. Critical to achieving these goals is quality health care by primary care providers.

This study, conducted by Michelle A. Larson McNeal, Ph.D. , LeeAnne Carrothers, Ph.D., and Brenda Premo, MA, focuses on the scope of California primary care physician's knowledge, attitude, and behaviors regarding physical disabilities and the extent of physician training in disability-related primary care. PDF (240 KB), Word (188 KB)

California's Comprehensive Strategy to Improve the Employment Rate of People with Disabilities: Stakeholder Perspectives

In early 2005, the Governor's Committee on the Employment of People with Disabilities issued the first draft of a Comprehensive Strategy, as called for under Assembly Bill 925. In conjunction with the California Health Incentives Improvement Project (CHIIP), the Governor's Committee launched an aggressive effort to solicit public input into the Comprehensive Strategy by advertising that it was posted to a public website and asking stakeholders to review it and offer comments. It also took testimony at its Spring and Summer public meetings.

This report, prepared by Curtis Richards for The Center for Disability Issues & the Health Professions in February, 2006, was developed for the California Health Incentives Improvement Project through funding from the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services, Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services. PDF (456 KB), Word (160 KB) Appendix A - Word (60 KB), Appendix B - Word (112 KB)