Disability and participation: assessing employment and education outcomes in the National Health Interview Survey (2010)

Loeb, Mitchell; Madans, Jennifer H.; Weeks, Julie D; Miller, Kristen; Golden, Cordell

doi:10.1108/s1479-3547(2013)0000007008

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“…Disability is a complex concept and adults with disabilities are a heterogeneous group; however, many within this group have in common the experience of limitation to full participation in society (3). Other research has indicated that having any disability, measured dichotomously, is associated with disparities in such factors as socioeconomic status and health (2)(3)(4)(5). This report expands on previous work by measuring the number of disability types a person might experience at one time, further demonstrating a pattern of decreasing socioeconomic status as the number of disabilities increases.…”

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Adults with One or More Functional Disabilities — United States, 2011–2014

Stevens¹,

Carroll²,

Courtney-Long³

et al. 2016

MMWR Morb. Mortal. Wkly. Rep.

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Nearly 40 million persons in the United States have a disability, as defined by responses to six questions recommended by the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services as the national standard for identifying disabilities in population-based health surveys (1). Although these questions have been used to estimate prevalence of functional disabilities overall, as well as types of functional disabilities (disability type), no study has yet investigated the characteristics of U.S. adults by number of disability types. Knowing the characteristics of persons living with multiple disability types is important for understanding the overall functional status of these persons. CDC analyzed data from the family component of the National Health Interview Survey (NHIS) for the years 2011-2014 to estimate the percentage of adults aged 18-64 years with one, two, three, or four or more disability types, by selected demographic and socioeconomic characteristics. Overall, 22.6 million (11.9%) working-age adults were found to have any disability, and in this population, most (12.8 million) persons had only one disability type. A generally consistent pattern between increasing indicators of low socioeconomic status and the number of disability types was observed. Understanding the demographic and socioeconomic characteristics of working-age adults with disabilities, including those with multiple disability types, might help to further the inclusion of persons with disabilities in public health programs and policies.

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