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What We Know About Adults with Disabilities: Public Health Resources for Planning

What We Know About Adults with Disabilities: Public Health Resources for Planning. bruce.steiner@illinois.net August 21, 2014 Bruce Steiner Illinois Department of Public Health. Objectives. R eveal demographic characteristics of Illinois adults with disabilities

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What We Know About Adults with Disabilities: Public Health Resources for Planning

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  1. What We Know About Adults with Disabilities:Public Health Resources for Planning bruce.steiner@illinois.net August 21, 2014 Bruce Steiner Illinois Department of Public Health

  2. Objectives • Reveal demographic characteristics of Illinois adults with disabilities • Illustrate how their health and well-being are affected. • Identify data resources to aid in planning.

  3. BRFSS Behavioral Risk Factor Surveillance System

  4. BRFSS • Federally funded program operating in every state. • Conducts telephone interviews among Illinois adults • Sample include landline and cellular telephones

  5. BRFSS • Trained interviewers • Scripted interviews • Questions about health conditions and behaviors

  6. BRFSS • Carefully controlled data collection • Random sample drawn for telephone interviews. • Represents entire adult population

  7. Sample Size • Statewide • 5,000 per year • Strata approx. 1,000 per year • County • 400 per county • Aggregate approx. 40,000 per round

  8. Data Preparation • Adherence to rigorous procedures • Weighting data • Equalizes probability of selection • Adjusts for variation of age/race/sex subgroups • Permits generalizations to entire adult population

  9. Uses of BRFSS data • Document need for public health interventions • Target resources for high risk populations. • Evaluate previous efforts • Establish public policy

  10. Alcohol Arthritis Asthma Cardiovascular Colorectal Diabetes Disability Health care coverage Health care utilization Health status Immunizations Injury control Nutrition Obesity Oral health Physical activity Quality of life Tobacco Weight control Women’s Health Topics

  11. Search for Illinois BRFSS

  12. http://app.idph.state.il.us/brfss/

  13. Disability • Activity Limitation due to health problem • Health problems requiring special equipment = Disability

  14. Disability Limitation 16.80% Equipment 7.20% Disability 18.70% 1,841,272 Adults

  15. Activities of Daily Living • Blind • Decisions • Walking • Dressing • Errands • Difficulty Seeing / Blind • Difficulty concentrating or remembering • Difficulty walking or climbing stairs • Difficulty dressing or bathing • Difficulty doing errands alone

  16. Limitation Blind 3.9 % Decisions 8.0 % Walking 11.4 % Dressing 2.8 % Errands 5.5 % Any Impairment 19.2 % 1,892,243 Adults

  17. Assumption People with one or more activity limitation are likely to require support from at least other individual.

  18. Assumption The greater the number of activity limitations a person has increases their reliance on others and decreases their independence.

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