Recommended Citation

Elizabeth Pendo, Disability, Equipment Barriers and Women’s Health: Using the ADA to Provide Meaningful Access, 2 St. Louis U. J. HEALTH L. & POL'y 15 (2008), https://digitalcommons.law.uw.edu/faculty-articles/974

Authors

Elizabeth Pendo, University of Washington School of LawFollow

Disability, Equipment Barriers and Women’s Health: Using the ADA to Provide Meaningful Access

Document Type

Article

Abstract

It is well-known that people with disabilities face multiple barriers to adequate health care, including lower average incomes, disproportionate poverty, and issues with insurance coverage. This article focuses on a more fundamental barrier-one that has not been discussed in the legal literature-inaccessible medical equipment and its effect on the delivery of women's health care to millions of women with disabilities .