State and Dynamics of Child Disability in Modern Russia

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10.2991/ahsr.k.201001.031How to use a DOI?

Keywords

child disability, structure, general and primary disability, prevention

Abstract

The paper presents the analysis of the state and dynamics of child disability in Russia taking into account structure, gender and level of certain classes of diseases on the basis of official statistics. It defines features in the development of child disability in modern Russia alongside with the main factors causing child disability and possible ways of its prevention. Modern Russia is facing an increase in the absolute number of children and adolescents recognized as disabled for the first time. The main population of disabled children form three classes of diseases: mental disorders and behavioral disorders, nervous system diseases, congenital abnormalities, development defects, deformities and chromosomal abnormalities. The regional uneven spread of child disability is typical for the area. It was concluded that the problem of child disability requires not only medical but also social, economic, political and psychological resources of the society.

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© 2020, the Authors. Published by Atlantis Press.

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This is an open access article distributed under the CC BY-NC license (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0/).

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TY  - CONF
AU  - V.V. Brusneva
AU  - V.V. Gorbunova
AU  - N.K. Mayatskaya
AU  - L.Yu. Grazhdankina
AU  - K.D. Bondarenko
PY  - 2020
DA  - 2020/10/03
TI  - State and Dynamics of Child Disability in Modern Russia
BT  - Proceedings of the International Conference “Health and wellbeing in modern society” (ICHW 2020)
PB  - Atlantis Press
SP  - 149
EP  - 153
SN  - 2468-5739
UR  - https://doi.org/10.2991/ahsr.k.201001.031
DO  - 10.2991/ahsr.k.201001.031
ID  - Brusneva2020
ER  -