Australians with a disability are less likely to exercise, more likely to eat poorly, report feeling unsafe and unhappy in their own neighbourhoods, and experience worse physical and mental health and less satisfying lives as a result.
Those were the findings of a major survey in Victoria published late last year, prompting calls for more to be done across a host of fronts to improve health and wellbeing.
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- Topics:
- Health
- Author:
- Jerril Rechter
- Source:
- Croakey
- Date published:
- Tue 15th Jan, 2019
