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Health Care Economics and Organizations > Economics > Financing, Organized > Insurance > Insurance, Disability
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Insurance, Disability  

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  • Topical Descriptor

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Entry terms

  • Disability Insurance

Note

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

Scope note

  • 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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