Workshop on Disability in America, a New Look : summary and background papers : based on a workshop of the Committee on Disability in America: a New Look, Board on Health Sciences Policy / Marilyn J. Field, Alan M. Jette, and Linda Martin, editors.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Summary of workshop presentations and discussions -- Models and concepts of disability -- Trends in disability -- Disability across the age spectrum -- Secondary health conditions: Part I -- Secondary health conditions: Part II.

Appendixes -- Workshop agenda and participants -- Conceptual models of disability: past, present, and future -- Defining and classifying disability in children -- How does the environment influence disability? -- Examining the evidence -- Late-life disability trends: an overview of current evidence -- Chronic disease and trends in severe disability in working-age populations -- Trends in disability in early life -- Aspect of disability across the life span: risk factors for disability in late life -- Health care transition of adolescents and young adults with disabilities and special health care needs: new perspectives -- Secondary conditions and disability -- A user's perspective on midlife (ages 18 to 65) aging with disability -- Impact of exercise on targeted secondary conditions -- Secondary conditions with spinal cord injury -- Depression as a secondary condition in people with disabilities -- Promoting health and preventing secondary conditions among adults with developmental disabilities -- Biographical sketches of workshop committee and workshop presenters.

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Of workshop presentations and discussions -- Models and concepts of disability -- Trends in disability -- Disability across the age spectrum -- Secondary health conditions: Part I -- Secondary health conditions: Part II.

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