Leveraging Claims Data to Compare Disparities in Health Outcomes for Autistic People and People With Down Syndrome

Autistic persons experience health inequities throughout the life course, which result in preventable adverse outcomes disproportionally affecting minority and economically disadvantaged autistic individuals. The Public Health and Autism Science advancing Equitable Strategies across the life course (PHASES) Center uses an integrated public health research framework to characterize and mitigate health inequities in vulnerable subgroups on the autism spectrum.