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• A STUDY ON DISABLED POPULATION IN RUSSIA AND KURGAN REGION

  N.L. Egorova, V.A. Dubovskaya, S.A. Musikhina, L.C. Dmitriyevskikh (Department of Defectology, Kurgan State University, Russia, RUSSIA).
  

  Disciplinary: Defectology.

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  DOI: 10.14456/ITJEMAST.2020.172

  Keywords: Disabled statistics; Disabled person; Childhood disability; Person with special healthcare needs; Handicap population; Incapacitation; disabled children.

  Abstract
  This article clarifies the need to analyze statistical data in connection with the increase in the disability rate within the Russian Federation and the Kurgan region. The study presents the main results of the research on disability and trends in the number of people with disabilities in Russia and the Kurgan region for 2017-2019. The basic concepts have been specified and differentiated: disabled people, disability, persons with special healthcare needs, incapacitation. The data analysis on the ratio of the disability rate of the population in different age groups on the territory of the Russian Federation is given. The data on the total number of disabled people and childhood disability in the Russian Federation, the Ural region, and the Kurgan region are specified. Several statistical parameters on the distribution of the number of disabled people by gender and the specificity of the childhood disability prevalence in different age groups are considered. The ratio of the disabled children to the total number of the disabled people of the Kurgan region and the Russian Federation is allocated. An attempt is made to rank the statistical data on the disability prevalence in the Kurgan region in comparison with other regions of the Russian Federation. The results of the study can be used by students, magistrates, postgraduates in scientific activities and to involve the public in this problem.
  
  Paper ID: 11A9J