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Scandinavian Journal of Public Health
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Restricting the influx of disability beneficiaries by means of law: experiences in Norway

Bjørgulf Claussen

Department of Social Insurance Medicine, University of Oslo, Oslo, Norway

Objectives: To study effects of restricting eligibility criteria for disability pension in Norway 1991.

Methods: Documents of 288 applicants from 1990 and 1993 in one county were analysed for social and medical variables as well as for the determination and its causes.

Results: Incidence of applications for disability benefits during a three-month period was 223 per 100,000 inhabitants in 1990. The focused group of `medically imprecise` musculoskeletal diagnoses concerned 26% of all applicants, while `precise` musculoskeletal diagnoses were given to 15%,`imprecise` psychiatric diagnoses to 7% and `precise` ones to 6%. The number of applicants fell by 39%, surprisingly about the same in all social and diagnostic groups. Denial rate increased from 8% to 21%. Denials mostly struck women, middle-aged, those living alone, those with short education, and applicants with `medically imprecise` diagnoses.

Conclusions: Restriction of disability benefits affected applicants with the least resources the hardest, and seems to contribute to the on-going process of marginalising the weaker part of the population.

Key Words: disability • social security • social insurance • insurance medicine • family medicine.

Scandinavian Journal of Public Health, Vol. 26, No. 1, 1-7 (1998)
DOI: 10.1177/14034948980260010401
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