Over the past three decades, health equity has become a guiding framework for
documenting, explaining, and informing the promotion of population health. With these …

The COVID-19 pandemic and the associated mitigation measures to reduce the spread of
disease affected the social, economic, and overall health of individuals. Quantitative …

Code status is a label in the medical record indicating a patient's wishes for end‐of‐life
(EOL) care in the event of a cardiopulmonary arrest. People with intellectual disabilities had …

This paper seeks to understand the first-hand experiences of people with sickle cell, a
recessively inherited blood disorder, who were identified as clinically extremely vulnerable …

All people need access to health care. Yet people with disabilities often experience ableism—
a “social devaluation on account of their disabilities.” 1 Disability is a part of being human, as …

Addressing Rehabilitation Health Care Disparities During the Coronavirus Disease-2019
Pandemic and Beyond - Physical Medicine and Rehabilitation Clinics Skip to Main Content …

Objective As Taiwan has become a super-aged society, care institutions for people with
disabilities, where most residents are from vulnerable groups, must implement measures …

People with learning disabilities are known to experience a wide range of health inequalities
and have a lower life expectancy than the general population. During the COVID-19 …

Abstract The Canadian law on Medical Assistance in Dying (MAID) is an attempt to balance
various constitutional rights of individuals with society's interest in protecting vulnerable …

This issue continues our tradition of advancing family medicine by publishing articles on
issues that affect patients and the practice of family medicine, specifically with an emphasis …