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Inclusive Health Data Hub

The Inclusive Health Data Hub brings together key health data that reflects Special Olympics Health work, impact, and insights from the past 30 years. This Hub is designed to make Special Olympics Health data easier to find, understand, share, and use over time. Data included on the Inclusive Health Data Hub can be found in 2024 sources linked at the bottom of each page.

Through the P.A.T.H. to Health Equity Framework, Special Olympics Health has continued to innovate preventive health programming. Special Olympics Health work is organized in four pillars:

Prevention

Prevention programs reach across the lifespan, delivering impact through health promotion, physical activity and fitness, and child development. These programs support individuals from early childhood through older adulthood and improve physical and social-emotional health to create lasting impacts.

Assessment

Evidence-based health screenings and referrals for follow-up care for Special Olympics athletes and individuals with intellectual and developmental disabilities (IDD).

Training

Special Olympics Health Training encompasses all in-person and online education provided to existing clinicians, current clinical students, and non-clinical practitioners, such as community health workers, globally. Through training, Special Olympics aims to empower current and emerging health workforces with the knowledge and skills needed to care for patients with IDD.

Health Systems Strengthening

Special Olympics Health builds strategic partnerships with diverse stakeholders to advance inclusive health systems and promote health equity for people with intellectual and developmental disabilities (IDD). Additionally, training Special Olympics athletes as leaders who champion inclusive health in their communities and beyond is a key part of being an athlete-led movement and fulfilling the demand of “Nothing About Us Without Us.”

Alongside the four pillars, Special Olympics Healthy Communities further supports our mission. This work is supported by enablers including athlete leadership, health communication, research & evaluation, data science, and technology.

Healthy Communities

Special Olympics Healthy Communities, made possible by the Golisano Foundation, works to increase access to quality health care and effective prevention programming to improve the health of people with intellectual and developmental disabilities (IDD).

Supporting Data

Special Olympics Health work is informed by data collected both internally and from trusted external sources. The Supporting Data page brings these external data, research findings, and relevant insights together to further strengthen and inform Special Olympics Health work.

Special Olympics Health activities are supported by many sources, including in the United States, by Grant Number NU27DD000021 from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention of the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services, with $18.1M (64%) financed with U.S. federal funds and $10.2M (36%) supported by non-federal sources.

These contents are solely the responsibility of the authors and do not necessarily represent the official views of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention or the Department of Health and Human Services.