TY - JOUR
T1 - Physicians’ perceptions of people with disability and their health care
AU - Iezzoni, Lisa I.
AU - Rao, Sowmya R.
AU - Ressalam, Julie
AU - Bolcic-Jankovic, Dragana
AU - Agaronnik, Nicole D.
AU - Donelan, Karen
AU - Lagu, Tara
AU - Campbell, Eric G.
N1 - Funding Information:
This work was funded by the Eunice Kennedy Shriver National Institute of Child Health and Human Development, Grant No. 1R01HD091211-01A1. The authors are grateful to Joy Hamel, Kristi L. Kirschner, and Mary Lou Breslin for their contributions to designing the focus group moderator’s guide and the survey questions. The funders did not have any role in the study design; collection, analysis, and interpretation of data; writing the manuscript; and the decision to submit the manuscript for publication. The authors are responsible for the content, including data analysis. Statements in the article do not necessarily represent the official views of, or imply endorsement by, the National Institutes of Health or the Eunice Kennedy Shriver National Institute of Child Health and Human Development.
Funding Information:
This work was funded by the Eunice Kennedy Shriver National Institute of Child Health and Human Development, Grant No. 1R01HD091211-01A1. The authors are grateful to Joy Hamel, Kristi L. Kirschner, and Mary Lou Breslin for their contributions to designing the focus group moderator?s guide and the survey questions. The funders did not have any role in the study design; collection, analysis, and interpretation of data; writing the manuscript; and the decision to submit the manuscript for publication. The authors are responsible for the content, including data analysis. Statements in the article do not necessarily represent the official views of, or imply endorsement by, the National Institutes of Health or the Eunice Kennedy Shriver National Institute of Child Health and Human Development.
Publisher Copyright:
© 2021 Project HOPE— The People-to-People Health Foundation, Inc.
PY - 2021/2
Y1 - 2021/2
N2 - More than sixty-one million Americans have disabilities, and increasing evidence documents that they experience health care disparities. Although many factors likely contribute to these disparities, one little-studied but potential cause involves physicians’ perceptions of people with disability. In our survey of 714 practicing US physicians nationwide, 82.4 percent reported that people with significant disability have worse quality of life than nondisabled people. Only 40.7 percent of physicians were very confident about their ability to provide the same quality of care to patients with disability, just 56.5 percent strongly agreed that they welcomed patients with disability into their practices, and 18.1 percent strongly agreed that the health care system often treats these patients unfairly. More than thirty years after the Americans with Disabilities Act of 1990 was enacted, these findings about physicians’ perceptions of this population raise questions about ensuring equitable care to people with disability. Potentially biased views among physicians could contribute to persistent health care disparities affecting people with disability.
AB - More than sixty-one million Americans have disabilities, and increasing evidence documents that they experience health care disparities. Although many factors likely contribute to these disparities, one little-studied but potential cause involves physicians’ perceptions of people with disability. In our survey of 714 practicing US physicians nationwide, 82.4 percent reported that people with significant disability have worse quality of life than nondisabled people. Only 40.7 percent of physicians were very confident about their ability to provide the same quality of care to patients with disability, just 56.5 percent strongly agreed that they welcomed patients with disability into their practices, and 18.1 percent strongly agreed that the health care system often treats these patients unfairly. More than thirty years after the Americans with Disabilities Act of 1990 was enacted, these findings about physicians’ perceptions of this population raise questions about ensuring equitable care to people with disability. Potentially biased views among physicians could contribute to persistent health care disparities affecting people with disability.
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U2 - 10.1377/hlthaff.2020.01452
DO - 10.1377/hlthaff.2020.01452
M3 - Article
C2 - 33523739
AN - SCOPUS:85100955344
VL - 40
SP - 297
EP - 306
JO - Health affairs (Project Hope)
JF - Health affairs (Project Hope)
SN - 0278-2715
IS - 2
ER -