More Than Ramps: A Guide to Improving Health Care Quality and Access for People with Disabilities

by Lisa I. Iezzoni

Book Overview

Nearly twenty percent of Americans live today with some sort of disability, and this number will grow in coming decades as the population ages. Despite this, the U.S. health care system is not set up to provide care comfortably, safely, and efficiently to persons with disabilities. Individuals with disabilities can therefore face significant barriers to obtaining high quality health care. Some barriers result from obvious impediments, such as doors...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0195172760
• ISBN13: 9780195172768
• Release Date: December 2005
• Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
• Length: 384 Pages
• Weight: 1.60 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.9" x 6.1" x 9.2"