Ideas To Stabilize the Affordable Care Act (2)
AAHD has joined the Mental Health Liaison Group (MHLG) offering the Senate HELP Committee ideas to stabilize the ACA. The September 1 letter is here: PDF. […]
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Week of August 15, 2017
Supporting Healthy Communities: How Rethinking the Funding Approach Can Break Down Silos and Promote Health & Health Equity August 8 Trust for America’s Health and Monitor Deloitte announced paper and resources Learn more here. Disability in America: Geography and Rural Map Series August University of Montana RTC on Disability in Rural Communities new website offerings […]
Factoring Prevention & Community Investments Into Alternative Payment Models
AAHD has joined Mental Health America (MHA) recommending two additions to the CMS Alliance to Modernize Healthcare, Alternative Payment Model Framework. The June 12 letter, available here, recommends factoring in prevention and community level investments by community-based organizations and social services agencies. […]
Factoring Prevention & Community Investments Into Alternative Payment Models
AAHD has joined Mental Health America (MHA) recommending two additions to the CMS Alliance to Modernize Healthcare, Alternative Payment Model Framework. The June 12 letter, available here, recommends factoring in prevention and community level investments by community-based organizations and social services agencies. […]
“Critical Provisions” Necessary in Any Affordable Care Act Replacement
AAHD has joined with 436 organizations, writing the U.S. Senate, outlining “critical provisions” important to persons with mental illness, mental health challenges, and substance use in the debate over the replacement of the ACA. The May 30 letter is here: PDF. […]
Protecting Medicaid Non-Emergency Transportation
AAHD has joined a coalition of disability, mental health, and aging organizations opposing H.R. 1394, legislation to repeal current Medicaid non-emergency transportation programs. The May 18 letter is here: PDF. […]
Affordable Care Act Marketplace Stability Rules (5) – Network Adequacy
AAHD has joined a Mental Health America collaboration seeking to strengthen network adequacy in ACA marketplaces. The March 7 letter is here: PDF. […]
Discrimination of tenants with a visual impairment on the housing market: Empirical evidence from correspondence tests
Pieter-Paul Verhaeghe, Ph.D., Koen Van der Bracht, Ph.D., Bart Van de Putte, Ph.D. Disability and Health Journal April 2016, Volume 9, Issue 2, Pages 226–233 Published online: October 24, 2015 DOI: http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.dhjo.2015.10.002 Background According to the social model of disability, physical ‘impairments’ become disabilities through exclusion in social relations. An obvious form of social exclusion might […]
Weight loss intention, dietary behaviors, and barriers to dietary change in veterans with lower extremity amputations
A.J. Littman, Ph.D., L.V. McFarland, Ph.D., M.L. Thompson, Ph.D., E.D. Bouldin, M.P.H.,D.E. Arterburn, M.D., B.R. Majerczyk, M.P.H., E.J. Boyko, M.D. Disability and Health Journal, Volume 8, Issue 3, Pages 325–335 Published Online: November 29, 2014 DOI: http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.dhjo.2014.10.003| Background Obesity is thought to be highly prevalent in persons with lower extremity amputations (LEAs) and can impair physical and social functioning. Objective […]
Correlates of wellness among youth with functional disabilities
K.S. Menear, Ph.D, J.K. Preskitt, Ph.D, S.S. Goldfarb, Ph.D, N. Menachemi, Ph.D DOI: www.disabilityandhealthjnl.com/article/S1936-6574(14)00156-3/abstract Background The literature is more informative on the impediments to wellness among youth with functional limitations and less instructive on the state of wellness for this population. Objective To explore overall wellness, and each sub-dimension of wellness, in a national sample […]