Center on Community Accessibility

Objective: To promote the health and well-being of people with disabilities

Our approach to health and well-being is unique in that we focus on individual health behavior and the context in which people with disabilities live. This contextual approach to health and well-being includes examination of the interactions between individual health decisions and the social and built environments in which behaviors occur.

CCA hosts a variety of projects and activities that promote health behavior, well-being, community accessibility, and specific legal, political, and institutional factors that shape behavior. Our notion of health and well-being embraces a holistic approach that includes access to quality health care, employment, education, housing, recreation, meaningful relationships, and public and private services. CCA advances our understanding of contextual health and well-being by initiating a comprehensive program of empirically based research; professional community-based, classroom-based, and individual instruction; solid technical assistance; and public outreach and intervention.

For information not found on this website, please contact:

Bethany Batsell
Administrative Assistant
Oregon Office on Disability and Health
OHSU - CDRC
P.O. Box 574
Portland, OR 97207
503-494-3331 or fax 503-494-6868
http://cdrc.ohsu.edu/oodh