A Driver in Health Outcomes: Developing Discrete Categories of Transportation Insecurity.

Research suggests that transportation is an important social determinant of health, because the ability to get around is consequential for accessing health care and nutritious food and for making social connections. We used an inductive mixed-methods approach and a quantitative k-means clustering approach to identify 5 categories of transportation insecurity using the validated 16-item Transportation Security Index. The resulting 5-category measure distinguished among respondents with qualitatively different experiences of transportation insecurity.

Employers' Perspectives on Accommodating and Retaining Employees with Newly Acquired Disabilities: An Exploratory Study.

Introduction Timely and appropriate accommodations can help employees who experience disabilities stay at work instead of exiting the labor force. Employers can play a critical role in connecting such workers with the accommodations they need. This qualitative study seeks to inform policy makers who want to improve workforce retention outcomes by uncovering factors that affect whether employers provide accommodations to, and ultimately retain, employees with disabilities.