[The dynamics of disability of population in the Russian Federation]

The analysis of disability indicators allows to draw conclusions about both level of medical care and quality of therapeutic measures and about level of social economic development of society as a whole. Furthermore, disability is a complex problem including social, economic, medical and other components.The study is devoted to analysis of official statistical data by set of such methods as exploration and generalization of experience, analytical and statistical techniques, monographic description.The study established decreasing of total number of the disabled in the Russian Federation in 2015-2020 in absolute values with simultaneous increasing of both absolute value and share of disabled children. The analysis of the number of the disabled in the Federal Okrugs of the Russian Federation permitted to conclude about retained general trends specific to the Russian Federation. In the structure of disability among individuals recognized as disabled for the first time, share of individuals with the disability group I increased. In individuals recognized as disabled for the first time, the most common diseases are malignant neoplasms (Chapter II) and diseases of cardiovascular system (Chapter IX). Among main persistent functional disorders in individuals recognized as disabled (both for the first time and repeatedly), first rank positions are occupied by conditions encoded in the International Statistical Classification of Diseases and Related Health Problems, 10th Revision, in Chapter III (dysfunction of the blood system and immune system), Chapter XIII (violation of neuromuscular, skeletal and movement-related functions), Chapter IX (violation of functions of cardiovascular system).