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Author : R. Prins
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 228 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 ( download)
Download or read book Work Incapacity in a Cross-national Perspective written by R. Prins and published by . This book was released on 1992 with total page 228 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : National Research Council
Publisher : National Academies Press
ISBN 13 : 0309264146
Total Pages : 421 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (92 download)
Download or read book U.S. Health in International Perspective written by National Research Council and published by National Academies Press. This book was released on 2013-04-12 with total page 421 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The United States is among the wealthiest nations in the world, but it is far from the healthiest. Although life expectancy and survival rates in the United States have improved dramatically over the past century, Americans live shorter lives and experience more injuries and illnesses than people in other high-income countries. The U.S. health disadvantage cannot be attributed solely to the adverse health status of racial or ethnic minorities or poor people: even highly advantaged Americans are in worse health than their counterparts in other, "peer" countries. In light of the new and growing evidence about the U.S. health disadvantage, the National Institutes of Health asked the National Research Council (NRC) and the Institute of Medicine (IOM) to convene a panel of experts to study the issue. The Panel on Understanding Cross-National Health Differences Among High-Income Countries examined whether the U.S. health disadvantage exists across the life span, considered potential explanations, and assessed the larger implications of the findings. U.S. Health in International Perspective presents detailed evidence on the issue, explores the possible explanations for the shorter and less healthy lives of Americans than those of people in comparable countries, and recommends actions by both government and nongovernment agencies and organizations to address the U.S. health disadvantage.
Author : Frank S. Bloch
Publisher : Transaction Publishers
ISBN 13 : 9781412841467
Total Pages : 340 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (414 download)
Download or read book Who Returns to Work & Why? written by Frank S. Bloch and published by Transaction Publishers. This book was released on with total page 340 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Work incapacity has become a major social problem in most industrialized countries. It increases social expenditures for sickness and disability programs and declines in labor force participation rates. Most measures taken in an effort to counter this trend focus on narrowing eligibility criteria or reducing levels and duration of benefit payments. Others aim instead to restore health and work capacity, and to stimulate return to work. Who Returns to Work and Why? examines a wide range of interventions directed at work incapacity and reintegration that are used currently by social security institutions, health care providers, and employers. It draws on data from six longitudinal studies of day-to-day practices and experiences in Denmark, Germany, Israel, the Netherlands, Sweden, and the United States. Sponsored by the International Social Security Association's project on work incapacity and reintegration (WIR project), this volume addresses key questions: do various interventions (by social security and health care systems) found in different countries make a difference as to work resumption patterns? If so, what are the best interventions? The contributors, lead researchers from the six countries involved in the WIR Project, provide a contextual background for the studies, including a comprehensive review of related literature; extensive descriptions of the measures taken by health care providers, employers, social security and other agencies, and the clients themselves, including medical interventions and vocational and other non-medical interventions; and qualitative and quantitative cross-national analyses of the measures applied, their impact on work resumption, and the role of incentives and disincentives. This book will be of special interest to policy makers, administrators, and scholars, as well as to doctors and other practitioners involved in rehabilitation and reintegration. Frank S. Bloch is professor of law and director of Clinical Education at Vanderbilt University in Nashville, Tennessee, and a consultant to the International Social Security Association on the WIR Project. Professor Bloch is an expert in disability benefit claim processing and appeals, both in the United States and from a comparative perspective. Rienk Prins is research director at AS/tri Research and Consultancy Group in Leiden, the Netherlands, and has consulted on social security policy in Eastern Europe and the former Soviet Union. Dr. Prins specializes in social security sickness and disability programs and occupational risks, and rehabilitation and return to work strategies.
Author : Daniel Béland
Publisher : Oxford Handbooks
ISBN 13 : 019983850X
Total Pages : 689 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (998 download)
Download or read book The Oxford Handbook of U.S. Social Policy written by Daniel Béland and published by Oxford Handbooks. This book was released on 2015 with total page 689 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This handbook provides a survey of the American welfare state. It offers an historical overview of U.S. social policy from the colonial era to the present, a discussion of available theoretical perspectives on it, an analysis of social programmes, and on overview of the U.S. welfare state's consequences for poverty, inequality, and citizenship.
Author : OECD
Publisher : OECD Publishing
ISBN 13 : 9264287531
Total Pages : 308 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (642 download)
Download or read book National Risk Assessments A Cross Country Perspective written by OECD and published by OECD Publishing. This book was released on 2018-03-05 with total page 308 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This report provides a synthetic view of national risk assessments (NRAs) in twenty OECD Member countries.
Author : Michael J. Graetz
Publisher : Yale University Press
ISBN 13 : 9780300081947
Total Pages : 388 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (819 download)
Download or read book True Security written by Michael J. Graetz and published by Yale University Press. This book was released on 1999-01-01 with total page 388 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Social insurance in the United States--including the Social Security Act of 1935 and the Medicare, Medicaid, and disability insurance programs that were added later--may be the greatest triumph of American domestic policy. But true security has not been achieved. As Michael J. Graetz and Jerry L. Mashaw show in this pathbreaking book, the nation's system of social insurance is riddled with gaps, inefficiencies, and inequities. Even the most popular and successful programs, Medicare and Social Security, face serious financial challenges from the coming retirement of the baby boom generation and the aging of the population. This book challenges the notion that American social insurance must remain inadequate, unaffordable, or both. In sharp contrast to policymakers and analysts who debate only one income security program at a time, Graetz and Mashaw examine social insurance whole to assess its crucial role in providing economic security in a dynamic market economy. They recognize that, notwithstanding a proper emphasis on individual freedom and responsibility, Americans share a common fate that binds them together in a common enterprise. The authors offer us a new vision of the social insurance contract and concrete proposals to make the nation's families more secure without increasing costs.
Author : Patrick Loisel
Publisher : Springer Science & Business Media
ISBN 13 : 1461462142
Total Pages : 519 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (614 download)
Download or read book Handbook of Work Disability written by Patrick Loisel and published by Springer Science & Business Media. This book was released on 2013-03-22 with total page 519 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book addresses the developing field of Work Disability Prevention. Work disability does not only involve occupational disorders originating from the work or at the workplace, but addresses work absenteeism originating from any disorder or accident. This topic has become of primary importance due to the huge compensation costs and health issues involved. For employers it is a unique burden and in many countries compensation is not even linked to the cause of the disorder. In the past twenty years, studies have accumulated which emphasize the social causes of work disability. Governments and NGOs such as the World Bank, the International Labor Organization, and the Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development have produced alarming reports on the extent of this problem for developed and developing countries. However, no comprehensive book is presently available to help them address this emerging field where new knowledge should induce new ways of management.
Author : Jochen Clasen
Publisher : Policy Press
ISBN 13 : 9781861344106
Total Pages : 296 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (441 download)
Download or read book What Future for Social Security? written by Jochen Clasen and published by Policy Press. This book was released on 2002-07-27 with total page 296 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: By drawing on data and theories in a broad spectrum of disciplines, including political science, economics, sociology and law this work provides an authoritative assessment of the current state of social security reform.
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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 896 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (91 download)
Download or read book Catalog of Federal Domestic Assistance written by and published by . This book was released on 1993 with total page 896 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Identifies and describes specific government assistance opportunities such as loans, grants, counseling, and procurement contracts available under many agencies and programs.
Author : Avril Alba
Publisher : Springer
ISBN 13 : 1349226688
Total Pages : 393 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (492 download)
Download or read book Age, Work and Social Security written by Avril Alba and published by Springer. This book was released on 2016-07-27 with total page 393 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: One of the most important changes in industrialised societies is the trend to early retirement. This volume is concerned with early exit from employment, the well-being of the early retired, and the policy issues raised. The topics include trends in the health of the elderly, disability insurance, pension policy, gender disparities, minimum standards in old age, and the harmonisation of pension schemes. The volume is cross-country in its coverage and cross-disciplinary in its approach.
Author : OECD
Publisher : OECD Publishing
ISBN 13 : 9264158243
Total Pages : 216 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (641 download)
Download or read book Transforming Disability into Ability Policies to Promote Work and Income Security for Disabled People written by OECD and published by OECD Publishing. This book was released on 2003-02-10 with total page 216 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book examines a wide array of labour market and social protection programmes aimed at people with disabilities and analyses the relationship between policies and outcomes across twenty OECD countries.
Author : M. Wappett
Publisher : Springer
ISBN 13 : 1137371978
Total Pages : 242 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (373 download)
Download or read book Emerging Perspectives on Disability Studies written by M. Wappett and published by Springer. This book was released on 2013-11-12 with total page 242 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Emerging Perspectives on Disability Studies brings together up-and-coming scholars whose works expand disability studies into new interdisciplinary contexts. This includes new perspectives on disability identity; historical constructions of (dis)ability; the geography of disability; the spiritual nature of disability; governmentality and disability rights; neurodiversity and challenges to medicalized constructions of autism; and questions of citizenship and participation in political and sexual economies. In sum, this volume uses disability studies as an innovative framework for its investigation into what it means to be human.
Author : Institute of Medicine
Publisher : National Academies Press
ISBN 13 : 0309037379
Total Pages : 318 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (9 download)
Download or read book Pain and Disability written by Institute of Medicine and published by National Academies Press. This book was released on 1987-01-01 with total page 318 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Painâ€"it is the most common complaint presented to physicians. Yet pain is subjectiveâ€"it cannot be measured directly and is difficult to validate. Evaluating claims based on pain poses major problems for the Social Security Administration (SSA) and other disability insurers. This volume covers the epidemiology and physiology of pain; psychosocial contributions to pain and illness behavior; promising ways of assessing and measuring chronic pain and dysfunction; clinical aspects of prevention, diagnosis, treatment, and rehabilitation; and how the SSA's benefit structure and administrative procedures may affect pain complaints.
Author : Tom Shakespeare
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1134577664
Total Pages : 274 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (345 download)
Download or read book Disability Rights and Wrongs Revisited written by Tom Shakespeare and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2013-10-30 with total page 274 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Over the last forty years, the field of disability studies has emerged from the political activism of disabled people. In this challenging review of the field, leading disability academic and activist Tom Shakespeare argues that disability research needs a firmer conceptual and empirical footing. This new edition is updated throughout, reflecting Shakespeare’s most recent thinking, drawing on current research, and responding to controversies surrounding the first edition and the World Report on Disability, as well as incorporating new chapters on cultural disability studies, personal assistance, sexuality, and violence. Using a critical realist approach, Disability Rights and Wrongs Revisited promotes a pluralist, engaged and nuanced approach to disability. Key topics discussed include: dichotomies – going beyond dangerous polarizations such as medical model versus social model to achieve a complex, multi-factorial account of disability identity - the drawbacks of the disability movement's emphasis on identity politics bioethics - choices at the beginning and end of life and in the field of genetic and stem cell therapies relationships – feminist and virtue ethics approaches to questions of intimacy, assistance and friendship. This stimulating and accessible book challenges disability studies orthodoxy, promoting a new conceptualization of disability and fresh research agenda. It is an invaluable resource for researchers and students in disability studies and sociology, as well as professionals, policy makers and activists.
Author : Daniel Béland
Publisher : Oxford University Press
ISBN 13 : 0192563467
Total Pages : 936 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (925 download)
Download or read book The Oxford Handbook of the Welfare State written by Daniel Béland and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2021-10-27 with total page 936 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This is the comprehensively-revised second edition of a volume that was welcomed at its first appearance as 'the most authoritative survey and critique of the welfare state yet published'. Its fifty-one chapters have been written by acknowledged experts in the field from across Europe, Australia, and North America. Some chapters are brand new; all have been systematically revised, and they are right up to date. The first seven sections of the book cover the themes of Ethics, History, Approaches, Inputs and Actors, Policies, Policy Outcomes, and Worlds of Welfare. A final chapter is devoted to the future of welfare and well-being under the imperatives of climate change. Every chapter is written in a way that is both comprehensive and succinct, introducing the novice reader to the essentials of what is going on while providing new insights for the more experienced researcher. Wherever appropriate, the handbook brings the very latest empirical evidence to bear. It is a book that is thoroughly comparative in every way. The Oxford Handbook of the Welfare State, second edition, is a comprehensible and comprehensive survey of everything that it is important to know about the welfare state in these troubled times. It is an indispensable source for everyone who wants to know what is really going on now, and what is likely to happen next.
Author : Jason L. Powell
Publisher : Springer Nature
ISBN 13 : 3031671724
Total Pages : 123 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (316 download)
Download or read book International Aging written by Jason L. Powell and published by Springer Nature. This book was released on with total page 123 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Wendy Loretto
Publisher : Policy Press
ISBN 13 : 1447325125
Total Pages : 264 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (473 download)
Download or read book Gender, Ageing and Extended Working Life written by Wendy Loretto and published by Policy Press. This book was released on 2019-01-23 with total page 264 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Nations that are raising retirement ages appear to work on the assumption that there is appropriate employment available for people who are expected to retire later. 'Gender, ageing and extended working life' challenges both this narrative, and the gender-neutral way the expectation for extending working lives is presented in most policy-making circles. The international contributors to this book - part of the Ageing in a Global Context series - apply life-course approaches to understanding evolving definitions of work and retirement. They consider the range of transitions from paid work to retirement that are potentially different for women and men in different family circumstances and occupational locations, and offer solutions governments should consider to enable them to evaluate existing policies. Based on evidence from Australia, Germany, Ireland, Portugal, Sweden, the United Kingdom and the United States, this is essential reading for researchers and students, and for policymakers who formulate and implement employment and pensions policy at national and international levels.
