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september 19, 2014

IN THE NEWS THIS WEEK:*

Dinan, Stephen. "Social Security's Outdated Records Systems Invite Disability Fraud: IG Report." The Washington Times.

Holleman, Joey. "Nearly 90 Percent Who Sought Disability Through Healthcare.gov Fail to Respond to State Letters." The State.

Fikac, Peggy. "For Advocates, Abbott's Policy More Important Than His Disability." Houston Chronicle.

Karner, Kevin. "University and State to Employ Higher Proportion of People with Disabilities." The Minnesota Daily.

NOTEWORTHY REPORTS AND ARTICLES

Armstrong, M.J., A.L. Gruber-Baldini, S.G. Reich, P.S. Fishman, C. Lachner, and L.M. Shulman. "Which Features of Parkinson's Disease Predict Earlier Exit from the Workforce?" Parkinsonism and Related Disorders, 2014, online ahead of print.

Brewster, Kendra, John A. Encandela, Brett Stoudt, and Michelle Fine. "Experience and Domain Mapping as Dynamic Tools for Focus Groups." Social Work Research, vol. 38, no. 3, 2014, pp. 184–189.

Deepak, Sunil, Jayanth Kumar, Parthipan Ramasamy, and Giampiero Griffo. "An Emancipatory Research on CBR and the Barriers Faced by Persons with Disabilities." Disability & Rehabilitation, vol. 36, no. 18, 2014, pp. 1502–1507.

Del Valle, Roy, Michael J. Leahy, Susan Sherman, Catherine A. Anderson, Timothy Tansey, and Barbara Schoen. "Promising Best Practices That Lead to Employment in Vocational Rehabilitation: Findings from a Four-State Multiple Case Study." Journal of Vocational Rehabilitation, vol. 41, no. 2, 2014, pp. 99–113.

Johnston, Marie, and Diane Dixon. "Developing an Integrated Biomedical and Behavioural Theory of Functioning and Disability: Adding Models of Behaviour to the ICF Framework." Health Psychology Review, vol. 8, no. 4, 2014, pp. 381–403.

Jones, M., K. Mavromaras, P. Sloane, and Z. Wei. "Disability, Job Mismatch, Earnings and Job Satisfaction in Australia." Cambridge Journal of Economics, vol. 38, no. 5, 2014, pp. 1221–1246.

Prince, Michael J. "Canadians with Disabilities, Labour Market Challenges, and Employment Opportunities in the Social Economy." Canadian Journal of Nonprofit & Social Economy Research/Revue Canadienne De Recherche Sur Les OSBL Et l'Économie Sociale, vol. 5, no. 1, 2014, pp. 6–20.

Rodríguez, R.P., C.R. Sánchez, C.O. de Haro, and J.S. Maldonado. "Older Workers with Disabilities: Job Satisfaction Differences in the Public and Private Sectors in Europe." Applied Research in Quality of Life, vol. 9, no. 3, 2014, pp. 711–731.

Shankar, Janki, Lili Liu, David Nicholas, Sharon Warren, Daniel Lai, Shawn Tan, Rosslynn Zulla, Jennifer Couture, and Alexandra Sears. "Employers' Perspectives on Hiring and Accommodating Workers with Mental Illness." SAGE Open, vol. 4, no. 3, 2014, online only.

Sherman, Susan G., Michael J. Leahy, Roy Del Valle, Catherine A. Anderson, Timothy N. Tansey, and Katherine Lui. "Organizational and Cultural Factors that Promote Creative Best Practices in the Public Rehabilitation Program: Findings from a Four-State Multiple Case Study." Journal of Vocational Rehabilitation, vol. 41, no. 2, 2014, pp. 115–125.

Trenaman, L.M., W.C. Miller, and R. Escorpizo. "Interventions for Improving Employment Outcomes Among Individuals with Spinal Cord Injury: A Systematic Review." Spinal Cord, 2014, online ahead of print.

Walker, Gabriela. "Impact of Ecological Factors on Concern and Awareness About Disability: A Statistical Analysis." Research in Developmental Disabilities, vol. 35, no. 11, 2014, pp. 2781–2789.

Yaldo, Avin, Brian S. Seal, and Maureen J. Lage. "The Cost of Absenteeism and Short-Term Disability Associated with Colorectal Cancer." Journal of Occupational & Environmental Medicine, vol. 56, no. 8, 2014, pp. 848–851.

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*Note: Articles are selected from the previous week's news and journal publications based on the Disability Research Center's focus on the topics of work disability, return to employment, youth with disabilities in transition, disability insurance, and disability policy at the state, federal, and international levels. Sources monitored include Nexis, EBSCOhost, Google Scholar, Ovid, PubMed, SAGE, and Scopus. Content featured in the weekly Disability Policy Research News Alerts reflects coverage of disability policy issues in the news media and journal publications. The information, analyses, views, and opinions expressed in the articles, publications, or comments contained therein are those of the authors or speakers, and their appearance here should not be construed as verification or endorsement by Mathematica or any of its clients.