Women and Disability

Kaye H S LaPlante M P Wenger B L . Trends in disability rates in the United States, 1970–1994. Disability Statistics Abstracts 1996; 17: 1–6.

Mashaw J L Reno V P . The environment of disability income policy: Programs, people, history and context. Washington, DC: National Academy of Social Insurance, 1996.

Hershey L. On the margin of the myth: Exploring the landscape of disabled women's lives. Mainstream 1997; 21: 24–28.

Yelin E H . The employment of people with and without disabilities in an age of insecurity. Annals of the American Academy of Political and Social Science 1997; 549: 117–128.

Staff at the Institute for Health and Aging, University of California, San Francisco. Chronic care in America: A 21st century challenge. Princeton, NJ: Robert Wood Johnson Foundation, 1996.

LaPlante M P Carlson D. Disability in the United States; prevalence and causes. Disability statistics report (7). Washington, DC: US Department of Education, National Institute of Disability and Rehabilitation Research, 1992.

Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. Chronic disease in minority populations. Atlanta: Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, 1992.

Mahowald M B Levinson D Cassel C. The new genetics and women. Milbank Quarterly 1996; 74: 239–283.

Taylor S E Repetti R L Seeman T. Health psychology: What is an unhealthy environment and how does it get under the skin? Annual Review of Psychology 1997; 48: 411–447.

Boylan E. Women and disability. London: Zed Books, 1991.

Schrott H G Bittner V Vittinghoff E Herrington D M Hulley S. Adherence to national cholesterol education program treatment goals in postmenopausal women with heart disease: The Heart and Estrogen/progestin Replacement Study (HERS). Journal of the American Medical Association 1997; 277: 1281–1286.

Kushil L H Fee R M Folsom A R Mink P J Anderson K E Sellers T A . Physical activity and mortality in postmenopausal women. Journal of the American Medical Association 1997; 277: 1287–1292.

Newcomer R J Benjamin A E . Indicators of chronic health conditions: Monitoring community-level delivery systems. Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press, 1997.

Imrie R. Disability and the city. New York: St Martin's Press, 1996.