[The comprehensive rehabilitation and abilitation of the disabled: the examples of evaluation of regional system].

In the Russian Federation, comprehensive rehabilitation and abilitation of the disabled is actively developing effected by the UN Convention on the Rights of the Disabled. In 2018-2019, the quantitative indicators of comprehensive rehabilitation and abilitation were studied in 85 regions of Russia. In 36 regions (42/4%) formation of system of comprehensive rehabilitation and abilitation was necessary. The remaining 49 regions required improving their systems of comprehensive rehabilitation and abilitation (57.6%, respectively). The study results demonstrated that significant increase in rehabilitation organizations (from 12.0% in 2018 to 100.0% in 2021) to be included in regional system of comprehensive rehabilitation and abilitation is expected. In the Republic of Dagestan, the final rating of comprehensive rehabilitation and abilitation system was from 6.5 to 7.6 points that indicates the need to organize and to improve comprehensive rehabilitation and abilitation system in the region. The experience of the Sverdlovsk Oblast and the Perm Krai where pilot project on comprehensive rehabilitation and abilitation system was carried out proved that one of the effective mechanisms of organizing comprehensive rehabilitation and abilitation system is development of state regional program by the authorities with involvement of all interested players and public organizations.

Reduction in Blood Lead Concentration in Children across the Republic of Georgia following Interventions to Address Widespread Exceedance of Reference Value in 2019.

In recent years, reports of lead contamination have dramatically increased in Georgia. Given concerns about the exposure of children to lead (Pb), the National Multiple Indicator Cluster Survey (MICS-2018) included a blood sampling component. The results showed that 41% of the children that participated had blood Pb levels (BLL) ≥ 5 µg/dL and that BLL in children living in Western Georgia were higher than those in Eastern regions. In response to these findings, NCDC implemented written and verbal advice to the families of children who participated in the MICS-2018 on how to reduce Pb exposure. From August 2019 onwards, the state program of clinical follow-up was implemented. The design of this study was a longitudinal study. The intervention of interest was the public health advice and medical follow-up, and the outcome was defined as the difference in BLL between the MICS-2018 survey and the state program follow-up. We observed a significant overall reduction in median BLL between MICS-2018 and state program follow-up in both August 2019 and the latest results (until December 2019). However, we did not observe any significant further reduction between August and the most recent BLL results. In the Georgian setting, written and verbal communication targeting individual households, alongside home visits to the most exposed, effectively reduced BLL in children.

[Problems and prospects of development of state programs aimed at maintaining the economic activity of citizens older.]

A long period of time in Russia, older people were considered only as the population aged, lost ability to work and in need of social and medical support from the state. However, many older people continued to work at the same place or looking for a job corresponding to the acquired status of the old-age pensioner. In the new political and economic realities, in connection with the inevitable increase of age of retirement, you must address the problem of securing and enforcement of labour and other social rights and legitimate interests of older persons, to reveal the problematic aspects of the economic activity of the elderly and to identify prospects in the state regulation of these issues.