... Disabilities. New York: Oxford University Press. Can No-Fault Compensation of Impaired Infants Alleviate the Malpractice Crisis in Obstetrics? Qnthia L. Gallup, University of California, Berkeley Abstract. In 1987, Virginia initiated no-fault compensation for birth-related...

...Sandra Tanenbaum U.S. Congress, Office of Technology Assessment, Hearing Impairment and Elderly People: A Background Paper , OTA-BP-BA-30 (Washington, DC: Government Printing Office, 1986), 87 pp., $4.75. Copyright © 1987 by Duke University Press 1987 192 Journal of Health Politics...

... impaired older adults in need of long-term services and supports (LTSS). Three strategies have been commonly pursued by state governments to improve LTSS: expanding noninstitutional care, integrating payment and care delivery, and realigning incentives through market-based reforms. These strategies were...

... attempting to impair the financial basis of the former. In Canada, the power contests are between the provinces and the federal government. © 2000 by Duke University Press 2000 Aaron, A. J., and W. B. Schwartz. 1984 . The Painful Prescription: Rationing Hospital Care . Washington, DC:Brookings...

... that the initiative did not violate the act, even though employees were penalized monetarily. This article argues that wellness programs institutionalize disability bias and a false perception of health attainability. People with substantial physical or mental impairments will not be able to control many aspects...

...William J. Lynk Legislation to enact the “Consumer Choice Health Plan” is promoted as a step toward competition and away from regulation. This characterization is misleading. The tax provisions in this plan include potentially beneficial reforms, but have offsetting effects that impair economic...

... ): 34 -75. Edelman , P. , and S. Hughes. 1990 . The Impact of Community Care or. Provision of Informal Care to Homebound Elderly Persons. Journal of Gerontology 45 ( 2 ): S74 -84. Greene , V. L. 1983 . Substitution between Formally and Informally Provided Care for the Impaired...

... U. S . Congress, Office of Technology Assessment, Hearing Impairment and El- derly People-A Background Paper, OTA-BP-BA-30 (Washington, DC: Gov- ernment Printing Office, 1986), 87 pp., $4.75. The Office of Technology Assessment (OTA) has prepared Hearing Zmpair- ment and Elderly People...

...: Oelgeschlager, Gunn and Hain, 1985), 268 pp., $27.50 Social Controls and the Medical Profession is a collection of fifteen articles on the governance of physicians as professionals, with an extensive and useful bibliography on competence and impairment in medicine and other professions. The authors...

..., but they constitute groups of particular interest to policymakers. They are also the subgroups in which one might most expect to find substitution occurring. Three subgroups are formal care users without cognitive impairment, those with higher-than- average income, and those who live alone. The more severely...

... Journal 6f Health Politics, Policy and Law trends in work disability lies in more closely examining the structural re- alignment of work in the American economy and how that realignment pushes certain segments of the impaired population into the status of the “work disabled.” Yelin’s...

... [hearing-related technologies] are usually minimal compared to the costs of the major architectural changes needed to accommodate people with mobility impairments” (p. 7). Hearing Impairment does not pursue the un- evenness with which Section 504 has been implemented, although OTA hy...

... as an economic, social, and health issue or as a measurable entity. (p. 65) They note that the notion of disability as a relation between health status and work skills became overshadowed by the concept of using impair- ments as criteria for the right to receive benefits. Moreover, the legislative...

... like age, sex, and skin color. Most people are not born disabled. For some, it arrives in the suddenly transforming wrench of injury, while for others, it comes with the slow, progressive march of chronic illness. For some, impairment is temporary, ebbing with time; while for others, the deficits...

... of society to see to their care. As reported by the Kahanas:g The proportion of bedfast and functionally impaired individuals living at home is at least as great as the proportion who are institutionalized. In a cross-national study of the health status of elderly people, comparative data...

... , M. , G. Wright, T. Jaskulski, and E. Kreisberg. 1985 . Synthesis of Cost Studies on the Long-Term Care of Health-Impaired Elderly and Other Disabled Persons: Final Report. Volume 1 . Silver Spring, MD: Macro Systems, Inc. Weissert , W. 1986 . Hard Choices: Targeting Long-Term Care...

... a personal care unit, we set the fraction of residents in such units to zero. 80 Journal of Health Politics, Policy and Law form activities of daily living (ADLs), or had a moderate cognitive impairment (defined as being forgetful) 3. Patient Mix ’Fraction. of CCRC residents...

... individuals will receive from care or their ability to function without it. An objective standard, such as the activities of daily living index, may be used to measure the degree of functional impairment in individuals.6 However, specifying the level of impairment above which a person “needs...

... from institutions to the community had the potential to provide care to people in less restrictive settings. Many of those who had been (or would have been but for these changes) institutionalized, however, had impairments in functioning too severe to allow them to support themselves financially...

... rolls are thought to lie both in the medical advances which prolong life and in the general economic conditions of advanced industrial society which, through increased auto- mation and rationalization of the processes of production, render obsolete low skilled and physically or mentally impaired...