Health and social aid

This section includes statistics on general morbidity rates as well as selected illnesses. It also provides data on medical institutions and staff employed. There are some statistics on residential facilities for the aged and disabled (both adults and children) and data on disability.

Morbidity rate is defined by dividing the number of sick diagnosed for the first time by mid-year resident population. Morbidity prior to 1999 is disaggregated according to the ninth revision of the International Classification of Diseases (1975), from 1999 − according to the tenth revision of International Classification of Diseases and Related Problems in health care (ICD’10).

Data on physicians includes all doctors with higher medical education at the end of a given year. It includes physicians employed in medical and sanatorium institutions, social protection, educational and research institutions, staff training institutions within the health care system, etc. This indicator before 2008 covered dentists with higher education and dental technicians with secondary medical education. Starting from 2008 dental technicians with secondary medical education are not taken into account in the total number of physicians.

Paramedical personnel is reported at the end of the year includes all persons with secondary medical education (excluding dental technicians) who are employed in medical and sanatorium institutions, social protection institutions, pre-school educational institutions, schools, orphan houses, etc.

Data on hospital beds is reported at the end of the year. Statistics show beds equipped with necessary supplies and available for

patient use, regardless of whether the beds are occupied by patients.

Hospitals providing care for out-patients include all  medical institutions which provide out-patient care (clinics, out-patients’ departments, health centers, out-patients’ departments of hospitals, hospital centers for health care, etc).

Injured at work is an individual who had an accident at work and died or, based on a medical certificate, is incapable of working during one or more days. This person may be given an easier job for one or more days if a document registering the accident has been completed according to a specified form.

Disability is a social in sufficient as a result of health limitation, caused by health deviation with resistant organism disorder, what leads to the social care and assistance necessity.

Care homes for the aged and disabled (both adults and children) are medical and social institutions providing permanent accommodation to the aged and disabled people or children who require care.

Orphan is a child whose have parents died confirmed by the death certificate of each one.

Children in care are children who have became the responsibility of state institutions due to the fact that their parents were deprived of parental right, or they have been taken from parents without parental right loss. Their parents were declared missing or legally incapable, died, serve sentence at places of detention, are arrested during investigation, are sought by law enforcement bodies. The reasons for that could be the evasion of payment of alimony, lack of information about parents’ location, long period illness that hampers the parents to take care of a child. This also can be children whose parents are unknown, the abandoned by parents, the abandoned in the maternity hospital or other health  institution,  on  the  children  refused  to take home by parents, other relatives and homeless children.

Adoption  is when an adoptive person adopts a child into his family as a daughter or a son according to a court’s decision.

Tutorship, curatorship are appointed to orphans or emancipated children. Tutorship is provided to child under 14 years and curatorship − child between the ages of 14 and 18 years.