2009 Disability Status Report
2009 Disability Status Report

Author: W. Lee C. Erickson

Publisher:

Published: 2011

Total Pages: 65

ISBN-13:

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The Annual Disability Status Reports provide policy makers, disability advocates, reporters, and the public with a summary of the most recent demographic and economic statistics on the non-institutionalized population with disabilities. They contain information on the population size and disability prevalence for various demographic subpopulations, as well as statistics related to employment, earnings, household income, veterans' service-connected disability and health insurance. Comparisons are made to people without disabilities and across disability types. The Status Reports primarily look at the working-age population because the employment gap between people with and without disabilities is a major focus of government programs and advocacy efforts. Employment is also a key factor in the social integration and economic self-sufficiency of working-age people with disabilities. The estimates in the 2009 Disability Status Reports are based on American Community Survey (ACS) data--a US Census Bureau survey that has replaced the Decennial Census long form. The estimates in these reports are based on responses from a sample of the population and may differ from actual population values because of sampling variability and other factors. Differences observed between the estimates for two or more groups may not be statistically significant. Finally, the 2009 Disability Status Report estimates should not be compared to estimates from any reports based on ACS data collected prior to 2008. In 2008, the US Census Bureau made a number of significant changes to the ACS. These changes included an entirely new set of disability questions as described in this paper. A glossary is included. [This paper was produced with the editing and production assistance of Sara VanLooy, Jeff Trondsen, and Joe Williams. For the 2008 edition of this report, see ED539268.].

World Report on Disability
World Report on Disability

Author: World Health Organization

Publisher:

Published: 2011

Total Pages: 325

ISBN-13: 9789241564182

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The World Report on Disability suggests more than a billion people totally experience disability. They generally have poorer health, lower education and fewer economic opportunities and higher rates of poverty than people without disabilities. This report provides the best available evidence about what works to overcome barriers to better care and services.

2008 Disability Status Report
2008 Disability Status Report

Author: W. Lee C. Erickson

Publisher:

Published: 2010

Total Pages: 65

ISBN-13:

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The Annual Disability Status Reports provide policy makers, disability advocates, reporters, and the public with a summary of the most recent demographic and economic statistics on the non-institutionalized population with disabilities. They contain information on the population size and disability prevalence for various demographic subpopulations, as well as statistics related to employment, earnings, household income, veterans service-connected disability and health insurance. Comparisons are made to people without disabilities and across disability types. The Status Reports primarily look at the working-age population because the employment gap between people with and without disabilities is a major focus of government programs and advocacy efforts. Employment is also a key factor in the social integration and economic self-sufficiency of working-age people with disabilities. The estimates in the 2008 Disability Status Report are based on American Community Survey (ACS) data--a US Census Bureau survey designed to replace the Decennial Census long form. In 2008 the US Census Bureau made a number of significant changes to the ACS. These changes included an entirely new set of disability questions. The estimates in these reports are based on responses from a sample of the population and may differ from actual population values because of sampling variability and other factors. As a result, differences between the estimates for two or more groups may not be statistically significant. A glossary is included. [This paper was produced and edited with the assistance of Sara VanLooy and Ali Goheer.].

The 2022 Disability Data Report
The 2022 Disability Data Report

Author: Sophie Mitra

Publisher:

Published: 2023

Total Pages: 0

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Realizing the rights of persons with disabilities Achieving rights as stipulated in the United Nations Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities (CRPD) and the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) requires quality, timely and policy-relevant disability data. This Report first reviews disability questions in national population censuses and household surveys globally from 2009 to 2021 to assess if they can identify persons with disabilities. Only 21% of the datasets under review have disability questions that meet international standards of comparability, i.e., those that collect information on functional difficulties (e.g. difficulty seeing, hearing, walking). Only 10% of datasets have the internationally-tested and comparable Washington Group Short Set (WG-SS) of questions. Including the WG-SS in many MICS6 (round 6 of the Multiple Indicator Cluster Survey) datasets has improved data availability for many countries. Much work remains for national surveys and population censuses to have functional difficulty questions. International programs, for instance, through COVID-19 High-Frequency Phone Surveys or the Survey of Income and Living Conditions, could help to improve the availability of disability questions in many countries and inform policy. Second, this Report disaggregates 32 indicators by disability status using data from MICS6 for women aged 18 to 49 in 35 countries. Disability status is measured through the functional difficulty questions of the WG-SS.We find inequalities associated with functional difficulties in all areas of wellbeing, particularly educational attainment, information and communication technology, sexual and reproductive health, multidimensional poverty, reporting being discriminated against, feeling safe, and subjective wellbeing. While most of the countries under study have ratified the CRPD, results suggest that more data collection, research and policy work are needed to address intersectional disadvantages and improve the situation of women with disabilities worldwide.For some indicators, there is a graded association between the severity of functional difficulty and of disadvantage. In other words, women with some functional difficulty are, on average worse off than women with no difficulty but better off than women who report a lot of difficulty or unable to do in at least one domain.In the countries under study, less than 20% of women with seeing difficulties use glasses, while only 2% of women with hearing difficulties use hearing aids. This result suggests a lack of assistive technology and related services that requires policy attention.Overall, the disadvantages that women with disabilities face within their economies and societies highlight the need for policies, data and research that support their rights and wellbeing.

2009
2009

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Published: 2009

Total Pages: 0

ISBN-13: 9781100133089

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The HALS data cannot be compared with the 2001 and 2006 data because of significant differences in sampling plans, the operational definition of the target population and the content of the questionnaires. [...] Introduction 5 2009 Federal Disability Report •. Labour force attachment and the employment rate for people with disabilities increased during the period of economic growth between 2001 and 2006, with growth in full-time year-round employment and in the employment of women with disabilities. [...] Severity of disability is a strong predictor of caregiving need: 85.6% of adults (age 15 and over) with severe to very severe disabilities require caregiving assistance, while 49.3% of adults with mild to moderate disabilities require assistance. [...] Despite the importance of education in ensuring the inclusion of people with disabilities, both children and adults experience barriers to formal education and training. [...] Youth aged 15 to 24 In 2006, 76.8% of youth with disabilities aged 15 to 19 and 30.0% of youth with disabilities aged 20 to 24 were attending school.

Cardiovascular Disability
Cardiovascular Disability

Author: Institute of Medicine

Publisher: National Academies Press

Published: 2010-12-04

Total Pages: 304

ISBN-13: 030915698X

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The Social Security Administration (SSA) uses a screening tool called the Listing of Impairments to identify claimants who are so severely impaired that they cannot work at all and thus immediately qualify for benefits. In this report, the IOM makes several recommendations for improving SSA's capacity to determine disability benefits more quickly and efficiently using the Listings.

Mental Disorders and Disabilities Among Low-Income Children
Mental Disorders and Disabilities Among Low-Income Children

Author: National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine

Publisher: National Academies Press

Published: 2015-10-28

Total Pages: 397

ISBN-13: 0309376882

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Children living in poverty are more likely to have mental health problems, and their conditions are more likely to be severe. Of the approximately 1.3 million children who were recipients of Supplemental Security Income (SSI) disability benefits in 2013, about 50% were disabled primarily due to a mental disorder. An increase in the number of children who are recipients of SSI benefits due to mental disorders has been observed through several decades of the program beginning in 1985 and continuing through 2010. Nevertheless, less than 1% of children in the United States are recipients of SSI disability benefits for a mental disorder. At the request of the Social Security Administration, Mental Disorders and Disability Among Low-Income Children compares national trends in the number of children with mental disorders with the trends in the number of children receiving benefits from the SSI program, and describes the possible factors that may contribute to any differences between the two groups. This report provides an overview of the current status of the diagnosis and treatment of mental disorders, and the levels of impairment in the U.S. population under age 18. The report focuses on 6 mental disorders, chosen due to their prevalence and the severity of disability attributed to those disorders within the SSI disability program: attention-deficit/hyperactivity disorder, oppositional defiant disorder/conduct disorder, autism spectrum disorder, intellectual disability, learning disabilities, and mood disorders. While this report is not a comprehensive discussion of these disorders, Mental Disorders and Disability Among Low-Income Children provides the best currently available information regarding demographics, diagnosis, treatment, and expectations for the disorder time course - both the natural course and under treatment.

Communities in Action
Communities in Action

Author: National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine

Publisher: National Academies Press

Published: 2017-04-27

Total Pages: 583

ISBN-13: 0309452961

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In the United States, some populations suffer from far greater disparities in health than others. Those disparities are caused not only by fundamental differences in health status across segments of the population, but also because of inequities in factors that impact health status, so-called determinants of health. Only part of an individual's health status depends on his or her behavior and choice; community-wide problems like poverty, unemployment, poor education, inadequate housing, poor public transportation, interpersonal violence, and decaying neighborhoods also contribute to health inequities, as well as the historic and ongoing interplay of structures, policies, and norms that shape lives. When these factors are not optimal in a community, it does not mean they are intractable: such inequities can be mitigated by social policies that can shape health in powerful ways. Communities in Action: Pathways to Health Equity seeks to delineate the causes of and the solutions to health inequities in the United States. This report focuses on what communities can do to promote health equity, what actions are needed by the many and varied stakeholders that are part of communities or support them, as well as the root causes and structural barriers that need to be overcome.