Journal article
Compensation for Occupational Disease: Hidden Agendas
Health affairs (Millwood, Va.), v 7(4)
01 Oct 1988
PMID: 2976020
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Abstract
The values implicit in the long-standing debate over the mechanisms for compensating occupational disease victims are investigated. Before workers compensation, injured employees sought remedies against employers in court in tort actions, but they seldom won their lawsuits. Today, all the US states have workers compensation plans to compensate occupational disease victims. The ultimate decision to include occupational disease into the compensation framework, which had been designed mainly for injury, has disappointed those seeking an economically efficient way to deal with disease and those searching for a fair way. The debate over House Resolutions 1626 and 3090 exemplifies the mode of debate throughout the history of workers compensation. Comments on these 2 bills are in 2 categories -- those raising considerations based on fairness and those resting on economic efficiency. The debate over whether to treat disease and injury alike provides only one example of how hidden agendas confound decisions in this area.
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- Title
- Compensation for Occupational Disease: Hidden Agendas
- Creators
- Sherry Brandt-Rauf - Environmental and Occupational Health SciencesPaul Brandt-Rauf - Cancer Center
- Publication Details
- Health affairs (Millwood, Va.), v 7(4)
- Publisher
- The People to People Health Foundation, Inc., Project HOPE
- Resource Type
- Journal article
- Language
- English
- Academic Unit
- School of Biomedical Engineering, Science, and Health Systems; Drexel University; Environmental and Occupational Health
- Web of Science ID
- WOS:A1988Q385700007
- Scopus ID
- 2-s2.0-0023801301
- Other Identifier
- 991019323776504721
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