The Dynamics of Disability: Measuring and Monitoring Disability for Social Security Programs

National Research Council, Division of Behavioral and Social Sciences and Education, Committee on National Statistics, Institute of Medicine, Board on Health Care Services, Committee to Review the Social Security Administration's Disability Decision Process Research

National Academies Press, Aug 16, 2002 - Medical - 368 pages

The Society Security disability program faces urgent challenges: more people receiving benefits than ever before, the prospect of even more claimants as baby boomers age, changing attitudes culminating in the Americans With Disabilities Act. Disability is now understood as a dynamic process, and Social Security must comprehend that process to plan adequately for the times ahead. 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.

This book provides a wealth of detail on the workings of the Social Security disability program, recent and emerging disability trends, issues and previous experience in researching disability, and more. It will be of primary interest to federal policy makers, the Congress, and researchersâ€"and it will be useful to state disability officials, medical and rehabilitation professionals, and the disability community.

Contents

• Summary: 1
• 1 Introduction: 17
• 2 Dynamics of SSAs Disability Programs: 33
• 3 Conceptual Issues in Defining Work Disability: 53
• 4 Survey Measurement of Disability: 65
• 5 A Work Disability Monitoring System: 88
• 6 Improving the Disability Decision Process: 113
• 7 Enhancing SSAs Research Capacity: 140
• References: 148
• Acronyms and Abbreviations: 156
• Appendix A Committee Meetings and Presenters of Testimony: 159
• Appendix B Workshop Agendas and Presenters: 161
• Appendix C Committee Recommendations: 170
• Biographical Sketches of Committee Members: 174
• Conceptual Issues in the Measurement of Work Disability: 183
• Methodological Issues in the Measurement of Work Disability: 211
• A Review Toward an Agenda for Research: 241
• Survey Design Options for the Measurement of Persons with Work Disabilities: 281
• Persons with Disabilities and Demands of the Contemporary Labor Market: 303
• Index: 335

Bibliographic information

• Title: The Dynamics of Disability: Measuring and Monitoring Disability for Social Security Programs
• Authors: National Research Council, Division of Behavioral and Social Sciences and Education, Committee on National Statistics, Institute of Medicine, Board on Health Care Services, Committee to Review the Social Security Administration's Disability Decision Process Research
• Editors: Nicole L. Amado, Dorothy P. Rice, Gooloo S. Wunderlich
• Publisher: National Academies Press, 2002
• ISBN: 0309169372, 9780309169370
• Length: 368 pages
• Subjects: Medical / General; Reference / Research; Science / Research & Methodology; Social Science / Research; Social Science / Statistics