Ricciardi, Giovanni Emanuele;
Cuciniello, Rita;
Raimondi, Veronica;
Vaia, Francesco;
Signorelli, Carlo;
Renzi, Cristina;
(2025)
Preventive Healthcare and Disability: Challenges and Opportunities.
Healthcare
, 13
(17)
, Article 2099. 10.3390/healthcare13172099.
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Abstract
Despite global commitments to universal health coverage, persons with disabilities (PwD) continue to face significant barriers in accessing appropriate healthcare, including diagnostics, treatments and preventive healthcare, with lower participation in cancer screening and vaccination programs. These disparities are driven by diverse, intersecting obstacles (structural, financial, communicative, and social) that vary by disability type and context. Inclusive approaches, co-designed with PwD and supported by standardized assessment tools, are urgently needed to address persistent inequities in healthcare access and outcomes.
| Type: | Article |
|---|---|
| Title: | Preventive Healthcare and Disability: Challenges and Opportunities |
| Open access status: | An open access version is available from UCL Discovery |
| DOI: | 10.3390/healthcare13172099 |
| Publisher version: | https://doi.org/10.3390/healthcare13172099 |
| Language: | English |
| Additional information: | Copyright © 2025 by the authors. Licensee MDPI, Basel, Switzerland. This article is an open access article distributed under the terms and conditions of the Creative Commons Attribution (CC BY) license (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/). |
| Keywords: | Disability; preventive health services; cancer screening; vaccination; infection prevention; health equity; barriers to access; inclusion; universal health coverage; accessibility |
| UCL classification: | UCL UCL > Provost and Vice Provost Offices > School of Life and Medical Sciences UCL > Provost and Vice Provost Offices > School of Life and Medical Sciences > Faculty of Population Health Sciences > Institute of Epidemiology and Health > Behavioural Science and Health |
| URI: | https://discovery.ucl.ac.uk/id/eprint/10213937 |
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