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International Journal for Quality in Health Care 15:279-281 (2003)
© 2003 International Society for Quality in Health Care

Editorial

Targeting health care improvement for persons with disabilities

Dr L. I. Iezzoni

Division of General Medicine and Primary Care, Department of Medicine, Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center, Boston, MA, USA

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Histories of persons with disabilities only started being widely told in the last few decades, and often they are not happy. Discrimination, disenfranchisement, and even outright hostility reach back to Biblical times. The forced isolation of many persons with disabilities over the centuries has obliterated their traces. Leaping forward two millennia, enormous strides have certainly been taken, often spurred by people with disabilities themselves. Especially in developed nations, legal, economic, societal, and environmental barriers are falling, allowing persons with disabilities to participate fully in daily life throughout communities. Nonetheless, persistent hurdles do remain, even in health care.

But wait. Barriers to health care for persons with disabilities? After all, as an American presidential advisory committee on health care quality wrote, ‘The purpose of the health care system must be to continuously reduce the impact and burden of illness, injury, and disability and to . . . [Full Text of this Article]

Classifying disability

Crossing that quality chasm


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