Blogs
CDC Pediatric TBI Guidelines
Read more about the updated Pediatric TBI Guidelines here.
Social Security Benefits After a TBI
SS Disability Benefits After TBI
March is Brain Injury Awareness Month
The USBIA Communications Committee has put together an exciting new campaign the aim of which is to increase the public’s understanding of brain injury during Brain Injury Awareness Month. It will accomplish this by using social media outlets to share the personal stories of individuals living with the effects of brain injury.
Effect of Medicaid Expansion on Workforce Participation for People With Disabilities
Objectives. To use data from the Health Reform Monitoring Survey (HRMS) to examine differences in employment among community-living, working-age adults (aged 18–64 years) with disabilities who live in Medicaid expansion states and non-expansion states. To read more, click here.
USBIA announces the topics for three upcoming webinars. The next webinar will take place on May 25.
National Family Caregiver Month
Kessler Foundation is celebrating National Family Caregiver Month. To learn more and find out about our caregiver support programs, please click here.
Social Security Disability Benefits Guide
Understand how Social Security disability works and how to calculate your benefits.
The current issue of the USBIA Newsletter is now available for download!
Estimated Lifetime Medical and Work-Loss Costs of Fatal Injuries — United States, 2013
Injury-associated deaths have substantial economic consequences. In 2013, unintentional injury was the fourth leading cause of death, suicide was the tenth, and homicide was the sixteenth; these three causes accounted for approximately 187,000 deaths in the United States (1). To assess the economic impact of fatal injuries, CDC analyzed death data from the National Vital
The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) released new research on the cost of injury in the Morbidity and Mortality Weekly Report (MMWR) According to the research, the combined estimated lifetime medical and work loss costs associated with fatal and non-fatal injuries in the United States were $671 billion in 2013. The lifetime medical