Social Security Disability Insurance Enrollment and Health Care Employment.

ABSTRACT:

Objective

To examine the relationship between Social Security Disability Insurance (SSDI) enrollment and health care employment.

Data sources

State-year level data from government and other publicly available sources for all states (2000-2014).

Study design

Population-weighted linear regression analyses model associations between each health care employment measure and each SSDI enrollment measure (i.e., SSDI overall, physical, or mental health enrollment rates), controlling for factors associated with health care employment, state fixed effects, and secular time trends.

Data collection

Data are gathered from publicly available sources.

Principal findings

A one standard deviation increase in SSDI enrollment per 100,000 population is associated with a sta

SUBMITTER: Pellegrini LC 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC6051978 | biostudies-literature | 2018 Aug

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature