Advancing Health Policy and Outcomes for People With Intellectual or Developmental Disabilities: A Community-Led Agenda

At least 10 million people in the United States have an intellectual and/or developmental disability (IDD). People with IDD experience considerably higher rates of poor overall health, chronic conditions including diabetes, mental health challenges, maternal mortality, and preventable deaths. This S...

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Published in:	JAMA health forum Vol. 5; no. 8; p. e242201
Main Authors:	Pham, Hoangmai H, Benevides, Teal W, Andresen, May-Lynn, Bahr, Madelyn, Nicholson, Joanne, Corey, Tim, Jaremski, Jennifer E, Faughnan, Kristen, Edelman, Miriam, Hernandez-Hons, Alexis, Langer, Carolyn, Shore, Stephen, Ausderau, Karla, Burstin, Helen, Hingle, Susan T, Kirk, Arethusa S, Johnson, Khaliliah, Siasoco, Vincent, Budway, Emma, Chin Kit-Wells, Meelin Dian, Cifra-Bean, Laura, Damiani, Marco, Eisenchenk, Shelby, Finn, Chester, Friedman, Merrill, Onaiwu, Morénike Giwa, Haythorn, Martha, Jirikowic, Tracy, Lo, Margaret C, Mackin, Coleen, Mangrum, Thomas, Matisse, Zanetha Amani, Merahn, Steven, Myers, Adam L, Nobbie, Patricia D, Siebert, Julie H, Skoch, Michael G, Smith, Ivanova, Stasio, B J, Sullivan, Maura K, Vuong, Huan, Wheeler, Max, Wigington, Tyler G, Woodward, Charlotte
Format:	Journal Article
Language:	English
Published:	United States American Medical Association 02-08-2024
Subjects:	Caregivers Clinical outcomes Community Data collection Developmental disabilities Developmental Disabilities - therapy Health care policy Health Policy Humans Infrastructure Intellectual Disability - therapy Maternal & child health Mortality United States Workforce United States
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Summary:	At least 10 million people in the United States have an intellectual and/or developmental disability (IDD). People with IDD experience considerably higher rates of poor overall health, chronic conditions including diabetes, mental health challenges, maternal mortality, and preventable deaths. This Special Communication proposes national goals based on a community-led consensus model that advances priority health outcomes for people with IDD and their caregivers/partners and identifies critical policy opportunities and challenges in achieving these goals. A community-led consensus agenda offers a foundation for focusing research, improving data collection and quality measurement, enhancing coverage and payment for services, and investing in a prepared clinical workforce and infrastructure in ways that align with lived experiences and perspectives of community members. People with IDD prioritize holistic health outcomes and tailored supports and services, driven by personalized health goals, which shift over their life course. Caregivers/partners need support for their own well-being, and easy access to resources to optimize how they support loved ones with IDD. Development of an adequately prepared clinical workforce to serve people with IDD requires national and regional policy changes that incentivize and structure training and continuing education. Ensuring effective and high-value coverage, payment, and clinical decisions requires investments in new data repositories and data-sharing infrastructure, shared learning across public and private payers, and development of new technologies and tools to empower people with IDD to actively participate in their own health care. Consensus health priorities identified in this project and centered on IDD community members' perspectives are generalizable to many other patient populations. Public and private payers and regulators setting standards for health information technology have an opportunity to promote clinical data collection that focuses on individuals' needs, quality measurement that emphasizes person-centered goals rather than primarily clinical guidelines, and direct involvement of community members in the design of payment policies. Clinical education leaders, accrediting bodies, and investors/entrepreneurs have an opportunity to innovate a better prepared health care workforce and shared data infrastructure to support value-based care programs.
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ISSN:	2689-0186 2689-0186
DOI:	10.1001/jamahealthforum.2024.2201