McKinsey September 24, 2024
Across disease types, patients with disabilities experience inequities all along the care pathway—with consequently worse outcomes. Inclusive pathway designs and targeted interventions could help.
Around the world, the prevalence of diseases is substantially higher for the 1.3 billion people (16 percent of the population) with disabilities. For example, among adults with disabilities living in the United States, 10.4 percent have heart disease, compared with 3.7 percent of those without a disability. The disparity in communicable diseases is similarly stark; globally, adults with disabilities are twice as likely to have HIV/AIDS, and children in sub-Saharan Africa with a disability are more likely to experience acute respiratory infections, diarrhea, and fever.
The aggregate effect of these health inequities on human life is...
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