In the article there have been analyzed the professional morbidity and disability due to professional diseases in Russian Federation and Rostovskaya region in 2006 year. The leading role of coal industry in formation of professional morbidity and disability due to professional diseases have been shown.

Comparative analysis of dynamics of primary disability in Russian Federation and Nizhegorodskaya region for the past 26 years (1983-2008) have been shown its dependence on process of improving of domestics legislation and the character of social and economic changes in the country

There have been considered organizational and legal questions of medical rehabilitation of the patients with occupational diseases of the dust etiology. There have been proposed the stages of an individual medical rehabilitation and the criteria of the efficiency of restorative treatment on the example of patients with the dust obstructive bronchitis

The urgency and the newness of children-disabled rehabilitation problems are the causes of an interest growth to the study of rehabilitation measures efficiency in the urban and rural settlements. The given approach is a necessary one taking into consideration the limited material resources, an increase of expenses for rehabilitation activity and requirements to the quality of rendered rehabilitation services.

In the given article there has been generalized an experience of 12-years activity of the department of neurovascular rehabilitation within the framework of that there has been realized restorative treatment of more than ten thousand patients ungergone a stroke. There have been considered the principles of physical rehabilitation , the conditions of the most efficient management of TPC (LFK), ergotherapy, physiotherapy, neuropsychologic and psychotherapeutic rehabilitation

The proposals of the formation of an individual program of rehabilitation in a chronic pancreatitis comprise recommendations on the medical, occupational and social rehabilitation.

In the article there has been realized a methodological approach to the use of different types of labour influence in the process of rehabilitation of the disabled. There are explained the meanings: occupational therapy, occupational activity, occupational employment; there are analyzed their general and distinctive properties, there has been underlined a necessity of their distinction.

In the article there have been highlighted clinical, social and psychological characteristics of the disabled because of schizophrenia, mental retardation, organic diseases of the brain which ones are the basis of a differential approach to the rehabilitation under conditions of psychoneurological boarding - schools. The methods of rehabilitation of medical and social-environmental character have been discussed. The ways of rehabilitation of the disabled have been analyzed as well.

There has been examined 345 patients with schizophrenia undergoing the treatment in psychiatric hospitals of Volgograd and the district. The study of aspects of self-stigmatization in the patients with schizophrenia was carried out with application of a self-stigmatization questionnaire worked out by the workers of a Scientific Centre of psychical health of the RAMS. The collation of the data received in examination of self-stigmatization of the patients with the data of assessment of the quality of life of the same patients allows to objectivize the self-assessment of the patients and reveal the factors influencing both on the self-stigmatization peculiarities and on the quality of life as a whole

In the article there has been given an analysis of the primary disability because of congenital anomalies in the children's population of the Russian Federation taking into consideration the principal anomalies in dynamics for 8 years (2001-2008).

In the article there has been presented an analysis of the children's contingent repeatedly recognized as disabled in consequence of diseases of a skeletal-muscular system and a connective tissue in the RF in dynamics for 8 years; there has been estimated a level of disability, there have been defined a specific weight and the level for 10 thousand of the children's population.

There has been carried out the entire statistical study of results of the primary examination of children-disabled in consequence of the vision organs diseases in Saint-Petersburg and the Leningrad district for a period from 2002 to 2007 years. The growth of ophthalmopathology in the last years necessitates the development of more detailed and precise criteria for determination of the vital activity state of children of different age groups that in their turn must find its reflection on the increase of the quality of medical and social expertise among the children's population and prophylaxis of the children's disability

In the article there have been studied the risk factors of the disability development in the children up to 18 aged in consequence of the nervous system diseases and in consideration of the place of residence, age and sex in the Lipetsk district for 2004-2008 years.

In the article there have been studied the structure and level primary disability of adult population in the Orenburzhskaya district by diseases classes for period 2006-2008.

There have been presented statistical data reflecting dynamics of a primary disability because of a blood circulation system diseases in Rostov-on -the-Don for 2004-2008 years, representing the 1st rank place in the structure of the reasons of the primary disability. There exists a precise tendency to the growth of a part of the employable age persons among the people recognized as disabled for the first time due to the blood circulation system diseases.

There has been calculated the specific weight of the pensionable age disabled persons in the structure of disability in all the districts and administrative units of the Russian Federation in 2004-2008 years

There has been studied the dynamics of disability (primary, repeated and general ones) in osteoarthrosis in the Irkutsk district for the last 8 years. The indices of the primary, repeated, general disability in women are higher than in men, in the pensionable age persons are higher than in the citizens of employable age. The peak growth of the primary disability in 2005-2006 years has been connected, first of all, with social factors and changes of legislation. The indices of rehabilitation in re-examination of the citizens with osteoarthrosis are low, sometimes there has been marked aggravation of the disability group.

In the survey of expert and medical literature on a question of the ability limitation degree establishment of the labour activity (common and professional) in the patients and disabled persons with hypoacusis and deafness there have been considered a combination of disorders of the hearing function and hypoacusis of different manifestation degree, limitation of the capacity to work in the patients and disabled persons with hypoacusis and deafness depending on the degree of the function disorder manifestation, criteria of establishment of the loss degree of professional employability in percent in the given category of the patients and disabled persons according to the degree of the hearing function disorder. There have been presented the data about contraindicated conditions and the character of work, provision with work of disabled persons with hypoacusis and deafness under the ordinary production conditions and specially created conditions, there has been given a list of accessible kinds of work and occupations.

The present work is dedicated to the questions of organization of medical and psychological rehabilitation of the participants of the battle actions in Afghanistan and in the North Caucasus. There have been presented the results of psychocorrection work in the complex rehabilitation of participants of the battle actions.

Rehabilitation of the patients is one of the main medical and social problems. The operation happened to be successful from the oncological positions is quite unsatisfactory in a social aspect as it deprives the patient of a possibility to live in an ordinary life style. Keeping to the rules of deontological principles, the solution of a problem of normal communication with the patient, meeting a common language with him are of the most important meaning in everyday practical work of a doctor-oncologist