Web sites provide disability information

Caring for special populations

Physicians seeking information about access to health care for people with disabilities can turn to several Web pages for help. Among them:

The Medline Plus disabilities page at http://www.nlm.nih.gov/medlineplus/disabilities.html has many links to sites with topics ranging from research to pragmatic advice on working with people with disabilities.
For information on making offices accessible, go to the Web site of the Center for Universal Design at http://www.design.ncsu.edu:8120/cud/. The center is based at North Carolina State University, Raleigh, N.C.
To read "Removing Barriers to Health Care: A Guide for Health Professionals," go to http://www.fpg.unc.edu/~ncodh/rbar/. The guide is produced by the Center for Universal Design and the North Carolina Office on Disability and Health (one of the office's two locations is at the University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill).
The National Organization on Disabilities page on health care access is at http://www.nod.org/healthcare/index.cfm; information on access to health insurance for people with disabilities is at http://www.nod.org/content.cfm?id=135.
DisabilityInfo.gov at http://www.disabilityinfo.gov/ is a federal Web site of disability-related resources. Click on "Health" for links to specific topics, research and statistics, and consumer group information.