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Podcast: A Health Podyssey
Episode: Linda Long-Bellil Gives an Overview of Health Policy for People with Disabilities
Description: Health Affairs Editor-in-Chief Alan Weil interviews University of Massachusetts' Linda Long-Bellil on an overview paper she and co-authors published in the October 2022 issue of Health Affairs. Using a biopsychosocial definition of disability, the authors found that health disparities among people with disabilities exist along race, gender and sexual orientation lines.Order the October 2022 issue of Health Affairs on disability and health.Health Affairs thanks the Ford Foundation, the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation, and the John D. and Catherine T. MacArthur Foundation for their financial support of this issue.Currently, more than 70 percent of...