"This book is based on the principle and belief that all healthcare professionals-regardless of discipline, level of education, or role within the healthcare system-have a role in caring for individuals with disability. As such, they need a basic understanding of the issue of disability to provide appropriate, optimal, and sensitive healthcare to those with disability. These issues and more are addressed in the chapters of this book. It is intended to provide information to nurses, nursing students, and other healthcare professionals to enable them to communicate with and provide quality healthcare to individuals with disability"-- Provided by publisher.

Chapter 9 written by contributing author: Beth Marks, PhD, RN, FAAN.

Disability : a major health inequity -- The role of social determinants of health in disability -- Strategies to address barriers to healthcare for people with disability -- Intellectual and developmental disabilities -- Physical disability -- Psychiatric/mental health disability and neurocognitive disorders -- Sensory disability : hearing loss -- Sensory disability : vision loss -- Inclusion of students with disability : redefining nursing education / Beth Marks.