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NCI Staff Presented at the AAIDD Conference in Pittsburgh, PA
Jul 1st, 2013NCI staff recently attended the annual AAIDD conference in Pittsburgh. NCI staff made the following presentation: The Changing Face of Family Care-Giving: Age, Income and Other Factors Among Families With Adult Family Members With Intellectual and Developmental Disabilities, and prepared a few posters for presentation. The presentation was well attended and received.
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2011-2012 Adult Consumer Survey Report Released!
May 21st, 2013The 2011-2012 Adult Consumer Survey Report has been released. The report presents the data that were collected in the 2011-2012 administration of the Adult Consumer Survey. National and state data are presented for each indicator. The report can be accessed here.
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NCI Poster at Conference Project Intersect: Health Disparities Research at the Intersection of Race, Ethnicity, and Disability
Apr 29th, 2013On April 25, 2013, NCI staff displayed a poster at Project Intersect: Health Disparities Research at the Intersection of Race, Ethnicity, and Disability: A National Conference. The conference was put on by the Oregon Health and Science University.
The NCI poster, Race/Ethnicity and the Use of Preventive Care Among Adults with Intellectual and Developmental Disabilities, looked at differences in preventive care utilization by race/ethnicity both before and after controlling for various demographic characteristics. The results were quite surprising.
Stay tuned for a blog post on the findings.
Check out the poster here: