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Listed below are peer-reviewed journal publications using data from the National Survey on Health and Disability (NSHD), as of June 2026:

1. Mulchay A, Schmidt EK, McMaughan DJ, Goddard KS, Batza K, Wallisch AM, Streed CG, Kurth NK & Hall JP. (2025). Discrimination among Disabled Adults in the United States: Findings from the 2022 National Survey on Health and Disability. Disabilities, 5(110): 1-12. doi: 10.3390/disabilities5040110. 
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2. Schulz JA, Owen A & Gimm G. (2025). Reasons for cannabis use among adults with disabilities: Findings from the 2023-2024 National Survey on Health and Disabilities. Disability and Health Journal 101979. doi: 10.1016/j.dhjo.2025.101979. 
   (plain language summary of "Reasons for cannabis use")
    
3. Beuoy A & Goddard KS. (2025). Does Who Responds Matter?: Exploring Potential Proxy Response Bias in the Washington Group Short Set Disability Estimates. Frontiers in Research Metrics and Analytics 10. doi: 10.3389/frma.2025.1654769. 
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4. Brown R. (2025).Structural ableism, health, and functioning among people with disabilities: An extension of the social determinants of health framework. Journal of Health and Social Behavior, online first. doi: 10.1177/00221465251379456. 
    
5. Beuoy A, Hall JP, Kurth NK, Goddard KS. (2025). The moderating effects of perceived transportation access on health and social connectedness for people with disabilities. Journal of Transport and Health 44 102165. doi: 10.1016/j.th.2025.10265.
   (plain language summary of "The moderating effects")
    
6. Salinger M, Clark MA. (2025, online first) Disproportionate Loneliness Burden Demonstrated in Two National Samples of Working-Age Adults With Varied Disability Types.Annals of Internal Medicine, Aug 5. doi: 10.7326/ANNALS-25-00928. 
    
7. Hicks AJ, deSouza NL, Del Pozzo J, Kurth NK & Hall JP. (2025). Traumatic brain injury in those with pre-existing disability: Prevalence, characteristics, and psychosocial function. Journal of Head Trauma Rehabilitation: 41(2), E157-E167. doi: 10.1097/HTR.0000000000001080.
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8. Medicaid and CHIP Payment and Access Commission (MACPAC). (2025). Differences in demographics and access to care by source of health coverage for adults with intellectual and developmental disabilities. MACPAC Issue Brief, June 26, 2005. 
    
9. Hall JP, Thomas K, McCormick B, Kurth NK. (2025). Undercounts of people with serious mental illness using the Washington Group Short Set. Frontiers in Psychiatry. doi:10.3389/fpsyt.2025.1606154.
   (plain language summary of "Undercounts of people with SMI")
    
10. Sullivan DL, Goddard KS, Kurth NK & Hall JP. (2025). "I'm in Hell …": Experiences of unmet health care needs among people with pre-existing disability and Long COVID. Journal of Health Care for the Poor and Underserved: 36(2). 572-589. doi: 10.1353/hpu.2025.a959114. 
    (plain language summary of "I'm in Hell...")
     
11. Goddard KS, Hall JP, Kurth NK. (2025). Accessible, not exploitable: Navigating fraud prevention in disability research. Disability ad Health Journal, 101843. doi:10.1016/j.dhjo.2025.101843.   
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12. Diaz MA, Wood EG, Yuan W, Gimm G, Kennedy J. (2025).Assessing unmet need for dental care from the perspective of adults with disabilities: A mixed methods approach. Disability and Health Journal, 101835.https://doi.org/10.1016/j.dhjo.2025.  
    (plain language summary of "Assessing unmet need for dental care")
     
13. Santore L, Ipsen C, Gimm G. (2025). Rural disability, self-reliance, and the utilization of mental health services.Disability and Health Journal: 18(2), 101761. doi: 10.1016/j.dhjo.2024.101761.     
    (plain language summary of "Rural disability, self-reliance")
     
14. Brehmer CE, Fry H, Bishop M, Hall JP & Kurth NK. (2025). Exploring the relationship between COVID-19 risk and employment quality among a sample of individuals with disabilities. Journal of Vocational Rehabilitation: 62(1).  doi:10.1177/10522263241302184.    
    (plain language summary of "Exploring the relationship between")
     
15. Ipsen C, Sage R, Standley K. (2024). "Too few, too far away, for what is paid": Consumer voices about the personal assistance worker crisis. Disability and Health Journal: 18(2).doi: 10.1016/j.dhjo.2024.101721.
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16. Hall JP, Kurth NK, McCorkell L, and Goddard KS. (2024). Long COVID Among People with Preexisting Disabilities.American Journal of Public Health: 114,1261-264. doi: 10.2105/AJPH.2024.307794. 
    (plain language summary of "Long COVID among people")
     
17. Hall JP, Goddard KS, Ipsen C, Myers A, and Kurth NK. (2024) Counting Everyone: Evidence for Inclusive Measures of Disability in Federal Surveys.Health Affairs Scholar: 2(9). doi:10.1093/haschl/qxae106.
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18. Goddard KS, Ipsen C, Myers A. (2024). The Hidden Crisis: Long COVID’s Association with Housing Stability and Home Accessibility Among People with Disabilities. Disability and Health Journal: 17(4). doi: 10.1016/j.dhjo.2024.101650.
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19. Schultz JA, Hall JP, West JC, Glasser AM, Bourne DE, Delnevo CD, & Villanti AC. (2024). Measuring disability among U.S. adolescents and young adults: A survey measurement experiment. Preventive Medicine Reports: 43. 102770.  (plain language summary of "Measuring disability among US adolescents")
     
20. Sullivan, DL, Kurth, NK, Hall, JP and Goddard, KS (2024). Household Structure, Loneliness, and Food Insufficiency Among Working-Age Adults With Disabilities During the COVID-19 Pandemic. In Ciciurkaite, G. and Brown, R.L. (Ed.) Disability and the Changing Contexts of Family and Personal Relationships (Research in Social Science and Disability, Vol. 15), Emerald Publishing Limited: Leeds. 43-59. doi: 10.1108/S1479-354720240000015005 
    (plain language summary of "Household structure, loneliness and food insufficiency")
     
21. Mulcahy A,  Batza K, Goddard K., McMaughan DJ, Kurth NK, Streed CG, Wallish AM, & Hall JP. (2023). Experiences of patients with disabilities and sexual or gender minority status during healthcare interactions. Journal of Public Health: 33, 1735–1743. doi:10.1007/s10389-023-02145-3 
    (plain language summary of "Experiences of patients with disabilities")
     
22. McMaughan DJ, Mulcahy A, McGehee A, Streed CJ, Wallisch AM, Kurth NK, & Hall JH. (2023). Gender diversity, disability, and wellness: impact of delayed and foregone care because of COVID-19. LGBT Health: 41(10). doi:10.1089/lgbt.2022.0385. 
    (plain language summary of "Gender diversity, disability and wellness")
     
23. Wallisch, A., Boyd, B., Hall, J.P., Kurth, N.K., Streed, C.G., Mulcahy, A., McMaughan, D.J., & Batza, K. (2023). Healthcare disparities among autistic, LGBTQ+ people. Autism in Adulthood: 11(3). doi: 10.1089/aut.2022.0006 
    (plain language summary of "Healthcare disparities among autistics")
     
24. Goddard, K., Hall JP, & Kurth NK. (2022). Examining differences in self-reported health and access to health care among people with early- and late-onset disability. Journal of Disability Policy Studies 34(4),260-65. doi: 10.1177/10442073221142253 
    (plain language summary of "Examining differences in self-reported health")
     
25. Hall JP, Kurth NK, Ipsen C, Myers A, & Goddard, K. (2022) Comparing measures of functional difficulty with self-identified disability: Implications for Health Policy. Health Affairs, 41(10). doi: 10.1377/hlthaff.2022.00395 
    (plain language summary of "Comparing measures")
     
26. Sage, R., Standley, K., & Ipsen, C. (2022). "Everything is a Mess. I'm Just Trying to Survive It.": Impacts of COVID-19 on Personal Assistance Services.Journal of Health Care for the Poor and Underserved33(4), 1844-1864. doi: 10.1353/hpu.2022.0141. 
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27. Gimm G. & Ipsen C. (2022). Examining rural-urban disparities in perceived need for health care services among adults with disabilities. Frontiers in Rehabilitation Sciences: 3. 875978. doi: 10.3389/fresc.2022.875978.
    (plain language summary of "Examine rural-urban disparities")
     
28. Mulcahy A, Streed CG, Wallisch AM, Batza, K, Kurth NK, Hall JP, 7 & McMaughan DJ. (2022). Gender Identity, Disability and Unmet Healthcare Needs among Disabled People Living in the Community in the United States. International Journal of Environmental Research and Public Health, 19(5), 2588. doi: 10.3390/ijerph19052588.
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29. Ipsen C & Repke M. (2022). Reaching people with disabilities to learn about their experiences of social connection and loneliness. Disability and Health Journal,15(1). 101220. doi: 10.1016/j.dhjo.2021.101220. 
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30. Hughes PM, Wu BS, Annis EI, Brunelli, BA, Kurth NK, Hall JP, & Thomas KC. (2022).Association of inadequate provider networks with unmet need for health services and self-employment among people with disabilities.Journal of Health Care for the Poor and Underserved, 33(2), 984-997. doi: 10.1353/hpu.2022.0076 
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31. Streed CG, Hall JP, Boyd BA, Batza K, & Kurth NK. (2021) Comparative health status and characteristics of sexual and gender minority respondents of the 2019-2020 National Survey on Health and Disabilities. LGBT Health 8(8), 563-568. doi: 10.1089/lgbt.2021.0075. 
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32. Hall JP, Kurth NK, Goddard K. (2021).Assessing factors associated with social connectedness in adults with mobility disabilities. Disability and Health Journal, 15(S1). doi: 10.1016/j.dhjo.2021.101206. 
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33. Ipsen C, Kurth NK, Hall JP. (2021) Evaluating MTurk as a recruitment tool for rural people with disabilities. Disability and Health Journal: 14(1). doi: 10.1016/j.dhjo.2020.100991. 
    (plain language summary of "Evaluation MTurk as a recruitment tool")
     
34. Hall JP, Batza K, Streed CG, Boyd BA, Kurth NK. (2020) Health Disparities Among Sexual and Gender Minorities with Autism Spectrum Disorder. Journal of Autism and Developmental Disorders. 2020:1-7. doi:10.1007/s10803-020-04399. (plain language summary of "Health disparities among SGM")
     
35. Smith S, Hall JP, Kurth NK. (2020) Perspectives on health policy from people with disabilities. Journal of Disability Policy Studies: 32(3). doi: 10.1177/104420732095667. 
    (plain language summary of "Perspectives on health policy")
     
36. Hall JP, Kurth NK. (2019). A Comparison of Health Disparities Among Americans With Intellectual Disability and/or Autism Spectrum Disorder and Americans With Other Disabilities. Inclusion 7(3), 160-168. doi: 10.1352/2326-6988-7.3.160. 
    (plain language summary of "A comparison of health disparities")
     
37. Repke MA, Ipsen C. (2019). Differences in social connectedness and perceived isolation among rural and urban adults with disabilities. Disability and Health Journal. 13(1), doi:10.1016/j.dhjo.2019.100829. 
    (plain language summary of "Differences in social connectedness")