Health & Wellness

Access to healthcare is both a generic rural healthcare problem and a specific problem of healthcare usability for people with disabilities.  When these two challenges are combined, the individual with a disability who lives in a rural area confronts an overwhelming set of barriers to the quality of care capable of helping prevent and manage secondary conditions.

Our research projects examine alternative models for delivering health promotion services to people with disabilities in rural areas by using existing resources, and by making external resources available to rural individuals with disabilities without overlapping, but rather encouraging full use of local services.