Research Catalog

Title

Measuring fuctional capacity and work requirements : summary of a workshop / Gooloo S. Wunderlich, editor ; Committee to Review the Social Security Administration's Disability Decision Process Research, Dorothy Rice, Chair ; Division of Health Care Services, Institute of Medicine ; and Committee on National Statistics, Commission on Behavioral and Social Sciences and Education, National Research Council.

Publication

Washington, D.C. : National Academy Press, 1999.

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Details

Additional Authors

• Wunderlich, Gooloo S.
• Rice, Dorothy P.
• Institute of Medicine (U.S.). Committee to Review the Social Security Administration's Disability Decision Process Research
• National Research Council (U.S.). Committee on National Statistics

Description

x, 111 p. : ill.; 23 cm.

Subject

• Task Performance and Analysis
• Social Security > legislation & jurisprudence
• Work Capacity Evaluation
• Disabled Persons > legislation & jurisprudence
• Capacity and disability > United States > Congresses
• People with disabilities > Employment > United States > Congresses
• Vocational qualifications > United States > Congresses
• United States

Genre/Form

• Congress
• Conference papers and proceedings

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references (p. 89-93).

Processing Action (note)

• committed to retain

Contents

Introduction -- Measuring functional capacity of persons with disabilities in light of emerging demands in the workplace -- Linking components of functional capacity domains with work requirements -- Desired characteristics of instruments to measure functional capacity to work -- The use of functional capacity measures in public and private programs in the United States and in other countries -- Adapting measurement of functional capacity to work to SSA's disability decision process -- Recurring themes and issues -- References.

ISBN

030906385X

OCLC

• 40863846
• SCSB-10233269

Owning Institutions

Harvard Library