Current Information Products

CDIHP provides several products to help health care and other service professionals provide quality services for people with disabilities.

Making Preventive Health Care Work for You—A Resource Guide for People with Physical Disabilities

This Guide helps make preventive health care work for you. Designed with input from both consumers and health care providers, this Guide offers important information, tools, and resources to help you:

The Pathway™ Series: Breast Care CD-ROM

A training series on CD-ROM about providing preventative health care services for disabled women.

Getting the Right Gear: Taking Charge of Obtaining Durable Medical Equipment

Getting your durable medical equipment (DME) can be a challenging and time consuming process. This guide can help to make the process go a little faster, and reduce the chance of denial of coverage by your health insurance carrier.
Click here to read the guide.

Emergency Evacuation Preparedness Guide

This guide, available in a variety of formats, focuses on developing emergency evacuation preparedness plans that take into account the needs of people with disabilities and activity limitations.

Note that the PDF version may require the free Adobe Reader application, available here.

Also note that depending on your Web browser and its settings, the Word, PDF, and plain text versions may either be displayed or downloaded by the browser. In most browsers you can right-click the links above to see a menu that will allow you to download the document and save it on your computer.

Emergency Health Information: Savvy Health Care Consumer Series

This booklet guides you through developing your emergency health information. You should keep copies of this information in your wallet (behind driver's license or official identification card) and emergency kits. It tells rescuers important information about you if they find you unconscious, or unable to provide information. It contains information about your medications, equipment, allergies, communication difficulties, preferred treatment and medical providers, and important contact people.

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"Aging with a Disability" Presentations

In March, 2003, the Center for Disabilities and the Health Professions partnered with the Rehabilitation Research and Training Center on Aging with a Disability to present: "Aging with a Disability: Putting Research into Practice and Education." Click here to view the presentations.

Tools For Decreasing Health Care Barriers: Accessible Health Care Briefs

The Center for Disabilities and the Health Professions "Accessible Health Care" series is designed to educate managed care organizations, health care professionals, community organizations, advocates, and people with disabilities.

This series includes discussions, examples, illustrations, and resource information for improving access to health care services, programs, and products. Subjects include:

Providing Primary Health Care for People with Physical Disabilities: A Survey of California Physicians

Beginning with the Americans with Disabilities Act of 1990 an awareness of the need for equal access to health care for people with disabilities was established. Moreover, the promotion of health for people with disabilities, the prevention of secondary conditions, and the elimination of disparities between people with and without disabilities have been ongoing goals of federal legislation. Critical to achieving these goals is quality health care by primary care providers.

This study, conducted by Michelle A. Larson McNeal, Ph.D. , LeeAnne Carrothers, Ph.D., and Brenda Premo, MA, focuses on the scope of California primary care physician's knowledge, attitude, and behaviors regarding physical disabilities and the extent of physician training in disability-related primary care.

The study is available for download in the following formats:

Note that the PDF version may require the free Adobe Reader application, available here.

Also note that depending on your Web browser and its settings, the Word and PDF versions may either be displayed or downloaded by the browser. In most browsers you can right-click the links above to see a menu that will allow you to download the document and save it on your computer.

California's Comprehensive Strategy to Improve the Employment Rate of People with Disabilities: Stakeholder Perspectives

In early 2005, the Governor's Committee on the Employment of People with Disabilities issued the first draft of a Comprehensive Strategy, as called for under Assembly Bill 925. In conjunction with the California Health Incentives Improvement Project (CHIIP), the Governor's Committee launched an aggressive effort to solicit public input into the Comprehensive Strategy by advertising that it was posted to a public website and asking stakeholders to review it and offer comments. It also took testimony at its Spring and Summer public meetings.

This report, prepared by Curtis Richards for The Center for Disability Issues & the Health Professions in February, 2006, was developed for the California Health Incentives Improvement Project through funding from the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services, Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services.

The report is available for download in the following formats:

Note that the PDF version may require the free Adobe Reader application, available here.

Also note that depending on your Web browser and its settings, the Word and PDF versions may either be displayed or downloaded by the browser. In most browsers you can right-click the links above to see a menu that will allow you to download the document and save it on your computer.