Report

Released:: January 1, 1999
Type:: Workshop Summary
Topics:: Health Care Workforce, Health Services, Coverage, and Access, Quality and Patient Safety
Activity:: Review of the Social Security Administration's Disability Decision Process Research
Board:: Board on Health Care Services

Note: Workshop Summaries contain the opinion of the presenters, but do NOT reflect the conclusions of the IOM. Learn more about the differences between Workshop Summaries and Consensus Reports.

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The Dynamics of Disability: Measuring and Monitoring Disability for Social Security Programs The Dynamics of Disability provides expert analysis and recommendations in key areas: understanding the current social, economic, and physical environmental factors in determining eligibility for disability benefits; developing and implementing a monitoring system to measure and track trends in work disability; improving the process for making decisions on disability claims; building Social Security's capacity for conducting needed research.
Released: July 2, 2002
Survey Measurement of Work Disability: Summary of a Workshop Survey Measurement of Work Disability is a summary of workshop which includes commissioned papers examining conceptual and methodological issues relating to the measurement of work disability in the Social Security Administration's Disability Evaluation Study. These papers discuss the meaning of the term disability and its measurement in some detail. In addition to the papers, the report includes a summary of the discussion at the workshop as well as a long term research agenda to address the gaps in survey methods and measurement of work disability as identified by participants.
Released: January 1, 2000
Review of the Disability Evaluation Study Design: Third Interim Report
Released: January 1, 1999