Estado actual de la atención sanitaria de personas con discapacidad auditiva y visual: una revisión breve

• Autores: Valeria Campos, Ricardo Andrés Cartes Velasquez
• Localización: Revista Médica de Chile, ISSN-e 0034-9887, Vol. 147, Nº. 5, 2019, págs. 634-642
• Idioma: español
• Títulos paralelos:
  • Health care of people with visual or hearing disabilities
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  • Visual or hearing disabilities account for 20% of people reporting some sort of disability. We performed a literature review about the interaction that people with visual or hearing disabilities have with the health care system. We found that these people report a lower quality of life and have a higher frequency of physical and psychological ailments. They also have difficulties to obtain an adequate health care and report a paucity of trained professionals to take care of them.