- Special Olympics evidence shows that 80% of U.S. medical students received no clinical training to treat people with intellectual disabilities 
- 52% of medical school deans and 56% of students reported that graduates were "not competent" to treat people with intellectual disabilities. 
- According to the World Report on Disability, individuals with disabilities are three times more likely to be denied care and four times more likely to be poorly treated in the healthcare system.

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Health worker training often lacks disability-related skills, information, and sensitivity. For example, a review found that only 8% of Western Pacific countries included disability-related information in healthcare undergraduate training. 

Health workers' Lack of Skill

Kuper, H, Heydt, P. (2019). The mission billion: access to health services for 1 billion people with disabilities. London School of Hygiene & Tropical Medicine, 2019. https://www.lshtm.ac.uk/TheMissingBillion

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