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Mission Possible: Achieving Health Equity through Inclusive Public Health Practice

Allison Hoit Tubbs, MS, CHES

And though the Americans with Disabilities Act was passed in 1990 ensuring the rights of people with disability to access public facilities, such as parks and playgrounds, it isn’t happening.  People with disabilities are being left out of everyday activities like playing with their children at a community playground.  Consequently, this lack of access has created a population that faces many barriers to health promotion opportunities.  These barriers are widely recognized as contributors to health disparities in people with disabilities.

Read more about barriers people with disabilities face and what CDC's National Center on Birth Defects and Developmental Disabilities is doing to create health equity.