Keywords
Health Services Accessibility
Interdisciplinary Team
Health Vulnerability
Healthcare Access Barriers
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Abstract
The aim was to analyze the vulnerabilities faced by people with disabilities in accessing health services, to identify care practices by multidisciplinary and interdisciplinary teams, and to evaluate the impacts of these practices. This is a reflective study, with a search in PubMed up to 2025, using MeSH terms and free descriptors (“disability”, “health services accessibility”, “interdisciplinary team”, “vulnerability”, “multidisciplinary care”). Several types of vulnerabilities were identified: physical, architectural, and transportation barriers; inadequate communication; discriminatory attitudes or lack of awareness among professionals; limitations in organizational flow, primary services, and coordination between specialties. The practices of interdisciplinary teams combining medicine, nursing, physical rehabilitation, occupational therapy, and psychology, among others, showed improvements in functional outcomes, social participation, mobility, patient satisfaction, and continuity of care. Interdisciplinary collaboration emerged as a key element in reducing vulnerabilities in access to healthcare for people with disabilities. However, this implies institutional challenges, funding challenges, professional training challenges, and the need to adapt health policies.
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