Interventions aimed at improving healthcare and health education equity for adult d/Deaf patients: a systematic review.

ABSTRACT:

Background

d/Deaf people suffer from inequitable access to healthcare and health information. This results in worse health literacy and poorer mental and physical health compared to hearing populations. Various interventions aimed at improving health equity for d/Deaf people have been documented but not systematically analyzed. The purpose of this systematic review is to obtain a global overview of what we know about interventions aimed at improving health equity for d/Deaf people.

Methods

Medline Ovid SP, Embase, CINAHL EBSCO, PsycINFO Ovid SP, Central-Cochrane Library Wiley and Web of Science were searched for relevant studies on access to healthcare and health-related interventions for d/Deaf people following the PRISMA-equity guidelines. We focused on interventions aimed

SUBMITTER: Morisod K 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC9341675 | biostudies-literature | 2022 Aug

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature