Editorial Policies

Aims and Scope

The materials of the journal cover scientific and practical issues of medical and social expertise of children and adults, disability, medical and social expertise, medical, professional, social and environmental rehabilitation and psychological rehabilitation of disabled people. The journal publishes original scientific articles that present various scientific aspects of medical and social expertise, epidemiology and statistics of disability in the constituent entities of the Russian Federation, organisational and legal foundations of medical and social expertise, normative legal acts on public health, morbidity and disability.

The journal discusses topical issues of improving medical and social expertise and rehabilitation of disabled people, prevention of disability, introduces readers to the programmes and directions of the state social policy in the field of health care and social protection of disabled people, to the experience of regional and territorial institutions of the Russian Federation in the organisation of medical and social assistance to the population.

The journal pays due attention to the topical issues of forensic medical and social expertise, medical and social expertise of children and adolescents, topical issues of disability in old age.