NCHPAD.ORG: Poverty and Health of People with Disabilities
People with disabilities have been a demographic that experiences poverty at a rate disproportionate to their peers without disabilities. Recent population surveys have shown that nearly one third of people with disabilities live below the poverty line and they’re more than twice as likely to live in poverty when compared to their non-disabled peers. Poverty can obviously cause food and health care insecurities. There are initiatives that can create partnerships with disability organizations to increase focus on things such as housing, employment, nutrition and health promotion, and health care for those in poverty.
