Health Care

Disability Insurance

Insurance designed to compensate persons who lose wages because of illness or injury; insurance providing periodic payments that partially replace lost wages, salary, or other income when the insured is unable to work because of illness, injury, or disease. Individual and group disability insurance are two types of such coverage. (From Facts on File Dictionary of Health Care Management, 1988, p207)

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Insurance designed to compensate persons who lose wages because of illness or injury; insurance providing periodic payments that partially replace lost wages, salary, or other income when the insured is unable to work because of illness, injury, or disease. Individual and group disability insurance are two types of such coverage. (From Facts on File Dictionary of Health Care Management, 1988, p207)

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  • Insurance, Disability

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Indexed with the subheadings classification, economics, ethics, history, legislation & jurisprudence, organization & administration, standards, statistics & numerical data, trends.

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IM; coord with specific disability if pertinent (IM); specific geog if possible

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  • Insurance (1966-1995)
  • Social Security (1966-1995)
  • Workers' Compensation (1993-1995)

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  1. National Library of Medicine. Disability Insurance. Medical Subject Headings (MeSH). 2026. Unique ID D018868. http://id.nlm.nih.gov/mesh/2026/D018868
  2. Disability Insurance. In: Wikipedia. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Disability_insurance
  3. Disability Insurance. In: Wikidata. https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q4118291