Study of programs for homebound handicapped individuals : Letter from Secretary, Department of Health, Education, and Welfare transmitting a report on a study of programs for homebound handicapped individuals, with recommendations, pursuant to Public Law 565, 83d Congress.

  • United States. Department of Health, Education, and Welfare. Vocational Rehabilitation Administration.
Date:
1955
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Credit: Study of programs for homebound handicapped individuals : Letter from Secretary, Department of Health, Education, and Welfare transmitting a report on a study of programs for homebound handicapped individuals, with recommendations, pursuant to Public Law 565, 83d Congress. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    STUDIES IN PROGRESS SUMMARY More complete, reliable, and current measures of the num- ber of disabled in our population, the nature and severity of their disabling conditions, and the services received and re- quired are needed. A number of studies, now in process, have been encouraged by the Department of Health, Educa- tion, and Welfare, either through technical assistance in study planning and conduct or through Public Health Serv- ice research grants. Many of these studies, in one or another of their phases, will provide some information on the dis- abled who are confined to theirhomes. None are so designed, however, that a satisfactory national picture of the home- bound will be produced. Studies of the Commission on Chronic Illness The Commission on Chronic Illness is now sponsoring two studies of the chronic-illness problem. Planning for these studies started in 1950 as a result of a strongly felt need among leaders in the chronic- illness field for a “‘definitive study of a population group to determine quantitatively the amounts and kinds of chronic illness.”’ Need for knowledge of the relationship between urban-rural residence and chronic illness led to the commission’s decision to conduct at least two surveys—one in a rural community and one in a highly industrialized, heavily populated urban area. Hunterdon County, in western New Jersey, was chosen as the site of the rural study. At the invitation of the subcommittee on chronic illness of the Commission on Medical Care of the Maryland State Planning Commission, Baltimore was selected as the locale for the urban study. Hunterdon County health survey—Reference has already been made to preliminary information from the Hunterdon County study (pt. II, p. 9).1. Cosponsors of the project, it will be recalled, are the Commission on Chronic Illness and the Hunterdon Medical Center, under the direction of Dr. Ray Trussell, with major financial support coming from the commonwealth fund. Technical assistance in study planning, as well as a small research grant, has come from the Public Health Service of the Department of Health, Education, and Welfare. The National Opinion Research Center, an affiliate of the University of Chicago, and the New Jersey Department of Health, are responsible for major portions of the fieldwork and tabulation of study results. 1 Commission on Chronic IIness. Chronic Illness News Letter. Rural-Urban Studies of Needs of the Chronically Ill, vol. 3, No. 5, June-July 1952; and Chronic Illness News Letter, vol. 5, No. 9, November 1954,