Disability insurance provides income when a worker is injured, gets sick or is unable to work. Disability income is not typically as much as a worker's salary but is based on a percentage of his wages. Disability coverage is among the most expensive types of insurance due to the high numbe...
disabilitydiseasefarmergenderinjuryinsurancementalmusculoskeletaloccupationalThe characteristics and costs of disability pensions in Finnish farmers were investigated. The data included a total of 4,088 permanent or temporary disability pensions of the self-employed Finnish farming population over a 5-year ...
We need further deliberation on the Social Insurance for Long-term Care in terms of the accompanying risk and the function of the insurance.1. Characteristics of social insurance for long-term care are unbalanced (asymmetric) in terms of benefits and burdens. From the point of view of benefits...
This note analyzes recently entitled disabled-workers receiving benefits under the Social Security Disability Insurance (DI) program. The analysis, based on data available in the Social Security Administration's (SSA's) administrative records, compares the characteristics of disabled workers receiving only...
Why is veteran & disability data important? These data help some government agencies to formulate policies and programs to help veterans and their families return to normal life with education, insurance, health care, disability, etc. What can we know from population mobility data?
Comprehensive measures, including prevalence rates, disability-adjusted life years (DALYs), and direct medical costs, were used to assess the disease burden of clonorchiasis. To estimate the prevalence rate, the number of infections was divided by the examined population, based on the annual survei...
For patients with the worst condition, namely Karnofsky Index 0.3, meaning that there is a patient who comes first for treatment with a severe disability, hospital admission is indicated, although death is not imminent. The patient's body mass index was obtained from body weight and height. The...
Real-world data were employed to determine clinical characteristics of patients with myasthenia gravis (MG) with differing degrees of muscle weakness, as defined using the Myasthenia Gravis Foundation of America (MGFA) classification system. Methods Data were drawn from the Adelphi MG Disease Specific...
Moreover, a recent health insurance claims database study in Japan reported that 7.8% of patients with asthma (age 17–75 years) treated with ICS or ICS plus LABA had severe asthma.7 Although some patients with severe asthma are well controlled by current treatment, others are not controlled...
patients with mental disorders improve their compliance with treatment6,7, which is of great importance in strengthening the assistance for patients with mental disorders, effectively reducing mental disability, promoting their rehabilitation and return to society, and maintaining social harmony and ...