By Jean Johnson, Martha Guinan, Steven E. Brown, and Valerie Shearer
The federal Healthy People 2010 initiative calls for the elimination of long-standing disparities in health status that exist among segments of the population, including disparities that occur by race or ethnicity (U.S. Department of Health and Human Services, 2000). Health disparities in relation to persons with disabilities have been amply documented, as have disparities by gender, race or ethnicity, education or income, geographic location, or sexual orientation. However, only limited research has examined the cumulative effect of multiple risk factors for disparities. What happens, for example, when disability intersects with culture? Some studies, while providing qualitative research on quality of life concerns for persons with disabilities, fail to address the effect of cultural differences within the research design. Even a landmark forum by three large federal agencies, seeking to bring visibility to the issues of health and well-being for people with disabilities, failed to address the importance of culture in contributing to health and well-being (Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, 2003).http://ici.umn.edu/products/impact/181/over4.html
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