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Tables of Contents for The Dynamics of Disability
Chapter/Section Title
Page #
Page Count
Summary
1
16
PART I: REVIEW AND RECOMMENDATIONS
Introduction
17
16
Background
18
3
Disability Determination-Structure and Process
21
5
The National Academies Study
26
3
Scope and Limitations
29
2
Organization of the Report
31
2
Dynamics of SSA's Disability Programs
33
20
Historical Developments and Program Growth
34
8
Factors Contributing to Recent Growth
42
9
Conclusion
51
2
Conceptual Issues in Defining Work Disability
53
12
Concepts of Disability and Work Disability
53
3
Major Schools of Thought
56
7
Conclusion
63
2
Survey Measurement of Disability
65
23
The National Study of Health and Activity
66
8
Needed Research in the Measurement of Disability in a Survey Context
74
12
Future Surveys of Disability and Work
86
2
A Work Disability Monitoring System
88
25
Need for a Work Disability Monitoring System
89
5
Characteristics of a Disability Monitoring System
94
14
Developing and Planning a Work Disability Monitoring System
108
5
Improving the Disability Decision Process
113
27
Background
113
1
The Current Decision Process for Initial Claims
114
3
SSA's Research Plan for a Redesigned Disability Decision Process
117
6
``Post-Redesign'' Period
123
14
Alternative Approaches to the Current Decision Process
137
3
Enhancing SSA's Research Capacity
140
8
Resource Requirements
141
4
Need for Fundamental Changes
145
3
REFERENCES
148
8
ACRONYMS AND ABBREVIATIONS
156
18
APPENDIXES
A Committee Meetings and Presenters of Testimony
159
2
B Workshop Agendas and Presenters
161
9
C Committee Recommendations
170
4
BIOGRAPHICAL SKETCHES OF COMMITTEE MEMBERS
174
161
PART II: COMMISSIONED PAPERS
``Conceptual Issues in the Measurement of Work Disability,''
183
28
Alan M. Jette
Elizabeth Badley
``Methodological Issues in the Measurement of Work Disability,''
211
30
Nancy A. Mathiowetz
``SSA's Disability Determination of Mental Impairments: A Review Toward an Agenda for Research,''
241
40
Cille Kennedy
``Survey Design Options for the Measurement of Persons with Work Disabilities,''
281
22
Nancy A. Mathiowetz
``Persons with Disabilities and Demands of the Contemporary Labor Market,''
303
32
Edward Yelin
Laura Trupin
Index
335