Meeting

Workshop: Disability in America

When:

Monday, August 01, 2005 (8:30 AM)

Where:

Keck Center • 500 Fifth St. NW, Washington, DC 20001 Map

Topic(s):

Biomedical and Health Research, Public Health, Select Populations and Health Disparities

Activity:

Disability in America

Board(s):

Board on Health Sciences Policy

 
On August 1, 2005 the Committee on Disability in America held a workshop at the Keck Center of the National Academies in Washington, DC to discuss a subset of topics related to disability. Its participants included researchers, clinicians, social service professionals, policy experts, and consumer representatives. A summary of the workshop, entitled Workshop on Disability in America: A New Look, was published in February of 2006. 

The workshop examined the following topics:

--methodological and policy issues related to the definition, measurement, and monitoring of disability and health over time;
--trends in the amount, types, and causes of disability; 
--disability across the age spectrum and in the context of normal aging; and 
--secondary health conditions