Medical and social characteristics of doctors recognized as disabled for the first time in the Irkutsk region

Introduction. The problem of disability of doctors is the most important indicator of public health, since doctors solve an important task of state policy aimed at maintaining public health, which determines the study and analysis of the disability status of this contingent of specialists. The purpose of the study: analysis of factors that shape the medical and social portrait of doctors who have been diagnosed with a disability for the first time. Task. To explore the medical and social characteristics of doctors who are first recognized as disabled in the Irkutsk region in 2021–2023. Materials and methods. Subject of the study: 400 citizens who were recognized as disabled for the first time in the Federal State Institution «Main Bureau of Medical and Social Expertise in the Irkutsk Region» in 2021–2023. Of these, 174 people are doctors. The study is selective. Selection criteria: persons recognized as disabled for the first time in the Irkutsk region in 2021–2023, working at the time of examination in their specialty. Sources: form 7-social security. Research methods: documentary, analytical, statistical. Results. In the structure of those first recognized as disabled among doctors, women predominate by gender, while men predominate in the control group, and the average age of initial recognition as disabled in the main group is older than in the control group. Most often, the III group of disability is established in the main and control group, the most rarely – I. Three main classes of diseases form more than 75,0% of primary disability in the Irkutsk region, and disability due to malignant neoplasms in the medical contingent is found slightly more often, and due to diseases of the circulatory system – somewhat less often than in the control group. Most often, in the first-recognized person in the main and control group, restrictions on the ability to self-service, movement and work in their various combinations were revealed. Conclusion. Among doctors from among the factors that were first recognized by people with disabilities, forming their medical and social portrait, were the female gender, the age of 55 years and older, the presence of a «light» group III of disability due to malignant neoplasms. The primary disability of doctors was most often established due to persistent disorders of the function of the blood system and the immune system, with a limitation of the ability to independently maintain, movement and work.