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Disability Among the Latinx Population: Epidemiology and Empowerment Interventions

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The significant increase in the Latinx population in the USA has also resulted in an increase in Latinx persons with disabilities. This chapter provides an overview of the prevalence and the most common types of disability in the Latinx population and a review of the health care status and barriers to health care experienced by Latinx persons. Empowerment-based interventions to address some of the barriers are also discussed here. We close the chapter with a discussion of implications for future research.

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  1. Department of Disability and Human Development, University of Illinois-Chicago, Chicago, IL, USA

    Fabricio E. Balcazar

  2. Steve Hicks School of Social Work, University of Texas-Austin, Austin, TX, USA

    Sandra Magaña

  3. Department of Occupational Therapy, University of Illinois-Chicago, Chicago, IL, USA

    Yolanda Suarez-Balcazar

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Balcazar, F.E., Magaña, S., Suarez-Balcazar, Y. (2020). Disability Among the Latinx Population: Epidemiology and Empowerment Interventions. In: Martínez, A., Rhodes, S. (eds) New and Emerging Issues in Latinx Health. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-24043-1_6

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