A 21st Century System For Evaluating Veterans for Disability Benefits - Couverture souple

Institute Of Medicine; Board On Military And Veterans Health; Committee On Medical Evaluation Of Veterans For Disability Compensation

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ISBN 10 : 0309106311 ISBN 13 : 9780309106313

Editeur : National Academies Press, 2007

Synopsis

21st Century System for Evaluating Veterans' Disability Benefits recommends improvements in the medical evaluation and rating of veterans for the benefits provided by the Department of Veterans Affairs (VA) to compensate for illnesses or injuries incurred in or aggravated by military service. Compensation is a monthly cash benefit based on a rating schedule that determines the degree of disability on a scale of 0 to 100. Although a disability rating may also entitle a veteran to ancillary services, such as vocational rehabilitation and employment services, the rating schedule is out of date medically and contains ambiguous criteria and obsolete conditions and language. The current rating schedule emphasizes impairment and limitations or loss of specific body structures and functions which may not predict disability well. 21st Century System for Evaluating Veterans' Disability Benefits recommends that this schedule could be revised to include modern concepts of disability including work disability, nonwork disability, and quality of life.

In addition to the need for an updated rating schedule, this book highlights the need for the Department of Veterans' Affairs to devote additional resources to systematic analysis of how well it is providing services or how much the lives of veterans are being improved, as well as the need for a program of research oriented toward understanding and improving the effectiveness of its benefits programs.

A propos du livre

À propos de l'auteur

Committee on Medical Evaluation of Veterans for Disability Compensation, Michael McGeary, Morgan A. Ford, Susan R. McCutchen, and David K. Barnes, Editors, Institute of Medicine

Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: National Academies Press
• Date d'édition: 2007
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN 10: 0309106311
• ISBN 13: 9780309106313
• Reliure: Broché
• Nombre de pages: 406
• Éditeur: Barnes David K., McCutchen Susan R., Ford Morgan A., McGeary Michael
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