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Selected health conditions and likelihood of improvement with treatment / Committee on Identifying Disabling Medical Conditions Likely to Improve with Treatment, Board on Health Care Services, Health and Medicine Division.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Committee on Identifying Disabling Medical Conditions Likely to Improve with Treatment, author.
- National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine (U.S.). Board on Health Care Services, author.
- National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine (U.S.). Health and Medicine Division, author.
- Series:
- Consensus Study Report
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Medical care--United States.
- Medical care.
- United States.
- Medical Subjects:
- United States.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (xv, 301 pages)
- Place of Publication:
- Washington, District of Columbia : National Academies Press, [2020]
- Summary:
- The Social Security Administration (SSA) administers two programs that provide disability benefits: the Social Security Disability Insurance (SSDI) program and the Supplemental Security Income (SSI) program. SSDI provides disability benefits to people (under the full retirement age) who are no longer able to work because of a disabling medical condition. SSI provides income assistance for disabled, blind, and aged people who have limited income and resources regardless of their prior participation in the labor force. Both programs share a common disability determination process administered by SSA and state agencies as well as a common definition of disability for adults: "the inability to engage in any substantial gainful activity by reason of any medically determinable physical or mental impairment which can be expected to result in death or which has lasted or can be expected to last for a continuous period of not less than 12 months." Disabled workers might receive either SSDI benefits or SSI payments, or both, depending on their recent work history and current income and assets. Disabled workers might also receive benefits from other public programs such as workers' compensation, which insures against work-related illness or injuries occurring on the job, but those other programs have their own definitions and eligibility criteria.
- Selected Health Conditions and Likelihood of Improvement with Treatment identifies and defines the professionally accepted, standard measurements of outcomes improvement for medical conditions. This report also identifies specific, long-lasting medical conditions for adults in the categories of mental health disorders, cancers, and musculoskeletal disorders. Specifically, these conditions are disabling for a length of time, but typically don't result in permanently disabling limitations; are responsive to treatment; and after a specific length of time of treatment, improve to the point at which the conditions are no longer disabling. -- Publisher's website.
- Contents:
- Front Matter
- Summary
- 1 Introduction
- 2 Cross-Cutting Issues
- 3 Cancer
- 4 Mental Health Disorders
- 5 Musculoskeletal Disorders
- Appendix: Mental Health Disorders: Additional Information
- Notes:
- Description based on print version record.
- ISBN:
- 0-309-67098-5
- 0-309-67096-9
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