Disability Impacts All of Us

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Title: Disability Impacts all of us

• Communities
• Health
• Access

More than 1 in 4 (28.7 percent) adults in the United States have some type of disability. Graphic of the United States displaying figures of people with a disability and people with no disability.

• 13.9 percent of U.S. adults have a cognition disability with serious difficulty concentrating, remembering, or making decisions.
• 12.2 percent of U.S. adults have a mobility disability with serious difficulty walking or climbing stairs.
• 7.7 percent of U.S. adults have an independent living disability with difficulty doing errands alone.
• 6.2 percent of U.S. adults are deaf or have serious difficulty hearing
• 5.5 percent of U.S. adults have a vision disability with blindness or serious difficulty seeing even when wearing glasses.
• 3.6 percent of U.S. adults have a self-care disability with difficulty dressing or bathing.

Disability and health

Adults with disabilities are more likely to have obesity, smoke, have heart disease, and have diabetes:

• 40.5 percent of adults with a disability are obese while 30.3 percent of adults without a disability are obese.
• 20.9 percent of adults with a disability smoke while 10.2 percent of adults without a disability smoke.
• 10.4 percent of adults with a disability have heart disease while 3.7 percent of adults without a disability have heart disease.
• 16.6 percent of adults with a disability have diabetes while 7.9 percent of adults without a disability have diabetes.

Disability and health care access

Health care access barriers for working-age adults include

• 1 in 4 adults with disabilities 18 to 44 years do not have a usual health care provider
• 1 in 4 adults with disabilities 18 to 44 years have an unmet health care need because of cost in the past year
• 1 in 6 adults with disabilities 45 to 64 years did not have a routine check-up in the past year

Making a difference

Public health is for all of us.

Join CDC and its partners as we work together to improve the health of people with disabilities.

• Building inclusive health program
• Improving access to health care
• Promoting healthy living
• Monitoring public health data
• Researching and reducing health disparities

View infographic and references at: www.cdc.gov/disabilities/

Contact us: disabilityandhealthbranch@cdc.gov

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Reference

Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. Disability and Health Data System (DHDS) [Internet]. [updated 2024 July; cited 2024 July 15]. Available from: http://dhds.cdc.gov