Healthcare

Natalya K. Guseva1, Vitaly A. Berdutin2, Pavel S. Zubeev3

1 State Educational Establishment of Higher Professional Training Nizhny Novgorod State Medical Academy of the Ministry of Public Health of the Russian Federation, 603005, Nizhny Novgorod, Russia;

2 The Volga District Medical Centre under the Federal Medical and Biological Agency of Russia, 603001, Nizhny Novgorod, Russia

3 State budget health agency of Nizhny Novgorod region "City Hospital ¹33"

Disability Indicators of in the social protection system of Russia

People with disabilities are categories of the population, which is particularly acute manifestation of inequality in economic, social, moral and political aspects due to their existing violations and Disability. Therefore, it should be remembered that disability indicators indirectly reveal the level of social protection of certain citizens of patients, and are the subject of a special study and in-depth analysis, especially in the context of solving the problems of social protection of the population. Many factors such as the level of economic and social development, environment, demographics, incidence, condition and activity of medical organizations, institutions of social protection of the population can affect on indicators of primary disability.

The subject of special interest is a link of the level and dynamics of primary disability with legislative activity in the social sphere. There was studied the effect of the implementation of laws and regulations on social protection of the population on the level and dynamics of primary disability in the Nizhny Novgorod region and in the whole of the Russian Federation. The study showed the presence of an abrupt increase in the number of citizens recognized as disabled for the first time in 1985, 1991, 1995, 1998, 2004 and 2005, which is associated with the release of the well-known regulations on social protection of the sick, the disabled, veterans., it has increased the number of appeals to the medical and social expertise institution in order to obtain pensions and benefits that the state guaranteed during these years (Table 1). The decrease of new cases of disability and primary disability index was observed after the boom. It recovered a little before the next ascent.

And only in the last ten years, from 2005 to the present time there is an annual decline of primary disability, particularly pronounced in 2008.  An intensive rate (the number of new cases of disability in 10,000 adult population) declined from 154.5 in 2006 to 77.2 in 2008. It amounted to 71.2 per 10,000 adult population in 2014. Reducing of intensive indicator is observed against the background of growth of morbidity, including disabling pathology, and relatively high mortality.

The overall incidence of the region increased by 4.3% and diseases of the circulatory system - by 7.9% from 2010 to 2014. There is a question about the availability of expert assistance, including for certain socially vulnerable population groups. In this regard, particular concern are the following contributors:                                                                                        

                                                                                                        Table 1.

Dynamics of indicators of primary disability in 1985 and 2014 depending on the regulatory framework of social protection of invalids in the Russian Federation.

years

The rate of growth (decrease) of primary disability in% in Russia

The primary disability and the growth rate of it in Nizhny Novgorod region, %

Legal acts which adversely affect the material and social position of the disabled individual contingents

1985

+ 81,88

28467  + 190,42

Resolution of the Central Committee of the CPSU and the USSR Council of Ministers on 26.07.1984 N812, and the order of the USSR Ministry of Health 03.09.1984 N1015

1991

1992

+ 19,18

+ 22,09

29821 + 40,67

40754 + 36,66

Resolution of the Council of Ministers of the USSR N375 of 14.04.1990 and N917 of 12.09.1990

1995

 

+ 19,84

 

58859 + 35,76

Federal Law ¹ 181  of 11.24.1995 and Federal Law ¹ 5 of 12.01.1995

2004

2005

+ 38,65

+ 18,8

38414ò+ 14,80

49361 + 28,50

Federal Law ¹ 122 of 22.08.2004

2008

2011

2014

- 12,8

- 5,0

- 9,1

21600 - 24,11

19969 – 9,2

19364 – 3,0

Changing of the approaches to the definition of disability, the implementation of the federal target for social protection and rehabilitation of disabled people

 

Ø    Persons of no fixed abode, who, as a rule, do not have identity documents, never seen by doctors, living in extremely harsh conditions and get into medical organizations in a serious condition. The territorial offices of the Federal Migration Service carry out registration of persons who have no fixed residence, the place of residence at the addresses of institutions of social services on the basis of their statements and identity documents, with the issuance of the certificate of registration in accordance with the normative acts. In the absence of identity documents, prior to the record, the registration is done on the basis of an application for a term determined by mutual agreement of the person with the administration of social service institutions (2). The lack of fixed residence is one of the criteria of need citizens to social services (1). Timely detection of these citizens and helping them in obtaining social and health services are quite difficult, as these persons are often marginalized and behave deviant, and there is no exact statistics about this.

Ø    People with reduced mobility and not mobile, who now have the possibility of obtaining certain administrative procedures in the electronic form, can be examined at home or by correspondence, if there is a corresponding decision of the institution medical and social assessment (3). However, many patients, particularly those from rural areas, haven’t access to computer information systems. The possibility of outpatient clinics in terms of examination of patients also is limited. Sometimes there are unreasonable demands from medical organizations to patients on execution of inspection standards that require transportation of immobile patient to the clinic. Patients from remote rural communities are forced to repeatedly visit medical facilities and institutions of medical and social expertise to undergo the necessary medical examinations and to conduct the survey.  This is evidenced by a decrease of primary disability in the Nizhny Novgorod region in the period from 2010 to 2014. For the whole adult population of the region in primary disability index decline was 2.4 per 10,000 , in people older than working age - 8.6 per 10,000 , older than working age living in rural areas - 9.6 per 10,000. 

Conclusion:

1.     Reduced disability in the social welfare system is indirect evidence of decline in social protection of patients with medical and social consequences of the disease.

2.     During the study of disability indicators it’s necessary to sift the primary disability (age, place of residence, social status), as well as indicators of overall morbidity, including disabling pathology.

3.     If any evidence of a decrease in the availability of expert assistance to individual citizens contingent, it is important to take measures for their social protection.

 

Literature:

1.     Federal Law ¹ 442 of 28.12.2013 "About the basis of social services to citizens in the Russian Federation", Art. 15.

2.     Decree of RF Government ¹ 713 of 17.07.1995 "On approval of the rules of registration and withdrawal of Russian citizens to register at the place of stay or residence within the Russian Federation and the list of officials responsible for the registration".

3.     Order of the Ministry of Labor and Social Protection of the Russian Federation ¹ 59í  of 29.01.2014 "Administrative Regulations on the provision of public services for the medical and social expertise"

 

Information about authors:

1.     First author

Natalya K. Guseva, Sc.D., Professor of the Department of extreme surgery and medical expertise at the Nizhny Novgorod
State Medical Academy, E-mail:
medexpert52@mail.ru, orcid.org/0000-0001-7756-3555

2.     Additional authors

·       Vitaly A. Berdutin, PhD, Deputy Head of the Marketing Department of the Federal fiscal health institutions “Volga District Medical Center” of the Federal Medical and Biological Agency, E-mail: vberdt@gmail.com, orcid.org/0000-0003—3211-0899

·       Pavel S. Zubeev, Sc.D., Professor, chief doctor of the City Hospital ¹33 (Nizhny Novgorod, Russia), head of the Department of of extreme surgery and medical expertise at the Nizhny Novgorod State Medical Academy, E-mail: mlpu33@mail.ru