When implementing disability-inclusive practices, governments should consider several key factors, as illustrated through a federal request for information (RFI), and in a new local data standard. The ...

About 20 million disabled people will be erased if the U.S. Census Bureau moves forward with changes to disability data collection methods. That is because many disabled people will no longer be ...

Globally, people with disabilities have worse outcomes across a wide range of indicators, including poverty, employment, education, health, and violence. 1, 2 The Convention on the Rights of Persons ...

More than a billion persons globally, about 15 percent of the world’s population, are estimated to have a disability. Most of them live in low- and middle-income countries. This number is expected to ...

The U.S. Census Bureau has put the brakes on a controversial proposal that would change how it counts people with disabilities. Critics of the proposed change argue that it could underestimate the ...

Women with disabilities experience elevated risk for adverse pregnancy outcomes. Most studies have inferred disabilities from diagnosis codes, likely undercounting disabilities. We analyzed data, ...

Marking the 34th anniversary of the Americans with Disabilities Act, Mayor Michelle Wu on Wednesday introduced a more holistic method of gathering data about residents with disabilities in an effort ...

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O. Rose Broderick reports on the health policies and technologies that govern people with disabilities’ lives. Before coming to STAT, she worked at WNYC’s Radiolab and Scientific American, and her ...

The city of Boston is rolling out new guidelines for how it serves residents with disabilities. “This is a big change in our policy for the city,” said Disability Commissioner Kristen McCosh. The new ...