Lisa Iezzoni receives NIH award to study the Pregnancy Experience of Women With Physical Disabilities

 More than 1 million women of childbearing age in the U.S. report physical disabilities, primarily from chronic mobility impairments. Anecdotal reports suggest that growing numbers of women with physical disabilities are choosing to become pregnant and bear children, but little is known about their prevalence or their pregnancy and childbearing experiences. In addition to providing insight into their experiences by interviewing women, this project would involve an initial effort to quantify the national prevalence of pregnancy among U.S. women with physical disabilities, producing entirely new information concerning an understudied group of women who have frequently experienced disparities in health care.

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