Back to Annual Meeting Page		American Public Health Association 133rd Annual Meeting & Exposition December 10-14, 2005 Philadelphia, PA

Abstract #115241

Susan Stoddard, PhD, InfoUse, 216 - 9th Street #320, Berkeley, CA 94710, 510-549-6520, sustoddard@aol.com

Local planning decisions shape the built environment. For people with disabilities, barriers in the built environment can restrict access to, or even deny access to, activities in the community. Such barriers include lack of access to private homes, poor relationships between location of accessible housing and public transportation, difficulty in traveling to or accessing health care, recreation, education, and other community resources and services. Local health, land use and transportation planners rely on statistics from the Census and other population surveys as they consider the impact of changes to local resources, circulation, and urban form. Since the 2000 Census, and improving in subsequent years of the American Community Survey (ACS), US census data has included selected measures of disability, in addition to well established population descriptors such as age, race, gender, to describe the US population. For the first time, local planners have this information available and have begun to use the information in local planning. This session covers sources of disability-related statistics used by local planners and examples of local planning application of disability statistics.

Learning Objectives:

• People attending this session will be able to describe the major statistical sources for local planning data related to disability and to prepare a summary statistical profile of a locality (city, county) based on the data.

Keywords: Disability Policy, Population

Related Web page: www.infouse.com/disabilitydata

Presenting author's disclosure statement:

I wish to disclose that I have NO financial interests or other relationship with the manufactures of commercial products, suppliers of commercial services or commertial supporters WITH THE EXCEPTION OF Owner and President of InfoUse,the organization conducting the research.