Social, Economic and Overall Health Impacts of COVID-19 on People Living with Disabilities in King County, WA.

ABSTRACT: The COVID-19 pandemic and the associated mitigation measures to reduce the spread of disease affected the social, economic, and overall health of individuals. Quantitative administrative datasets typically did not contain demographic information that allowed for reporting or analysis of the impacts of COVID-19 on people living with disabilities. Understanding the experiences of this population during the pandemic can inform the design of public health responses that are more robust and better connected to community. This paper describes a qualitative participatory study with a diverse sample of people living with disabilities in King County, WA. Through 2 listening sessions and 35 semi-structured interviews, it examines what impacts COVID-19 brought for people living with disabilities; elu

SUBMITTER: Turcheti N 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC9517928 | biostudies-literature | 2022 Aug

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature