title: The health insurance coverage of working-age persons with physical disabilities.
abstract: In this article, we examine the health insurance status of working-age, physically disabled persons, and particularly the question of whether the public sector insures a disproportionate share of the highest-risk disabled population. We use descriptive statistics to develop an insurance profile of respondents with severe physical disabilities, and multivariate procedures to model differences between privately and publicly insured, disabled persons. Results of logistic regression procedures indicate that respondents with private insurance alone are more likely to have a high functional level, a positive perception of their health, and to be married, than are those with public (or a combination of public and private) insurance. Specific type of disability, age, and wheelchair use were also found to predict the type of insurance, their effects largely mediated by employment status and income.
authors.affiliation: Department of Sociology, University of Utah, Salt Lake City 84112.
authors.forename: T J
authors.initials: TJ
authors.lastname: Burns
authors.forename: A I
authors.initials: AI
authors.lastname: Batavia
authors.forename: G
authors.initials: G
authors.lastname: DeJong
mesh_terms: D000328:Adult; D000367:Age Factors; D001294:Attitude to Health; D006233:Persons with Disabilities; D004651:Employment; D005260:Female; D006801:Humans; D007182:Income; D007348:Insurance, Health / Q000706:statistics & numerical data*; D008297:Male; D008875:Middle Aged; D015999:Multivariate Analysis; D014481:United States