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Between health care and social security – psychiatric patients and the disability pension system in Norway and Russia
BACKGROUND: The official statistics of persons with mental disorders who are granted disability pension (DP) in Russia and Norway indicate large differences between the countries. METHODS: This qualitative explorative hypothesis-generating study is based on text analysis of the laws, regulations and...
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Acceso en línea: | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC1994164/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/17705818 http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/1472-6963-7-128 |
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author | Rezvyy, Grigory Schönfelder, Walter Øiesvold, Terje Olstad, Reidun Midré, Georges |
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description | BACKGROUND: The official statistics of persons with mental disorders who are granted disability pension (DP) in Russia and Norway indicate large differences between the countries. METHODS: This qualitative explorative hypothesis-generating study is based on text analysis of the laws, regulations and guidelines, and qualitative interviews of informants representing all the organisational elements of the DP systems in both countries. RESULTS: The DP application process is initiated much later in Norway than in Russia, where a 3 year occupational rehabilitation and adequate treatment is mandatory before DP is granted. In Russia, two instances are responsible for preparing of the medical certification for DP, a patients medical doctor (PD) and a clinical expert commission (CEC) while there is one in Norway (PD). In Russia, the Bureau of Medical-Social Expertise is responsible for evaluation and granting of DP. In Norway, the local social insurance offices (SIO) are responsible for the DP application. Decisions are taken collectively in Russia, while the Norwegian PD and SIO officer often take decisions alone. In Russia, the medical criterion is the decisive one, while rehabilitation and treatment criteria are given priority in Norway. The size of the DP in Norway is enough to cover of subsistences expenditure, while the Russian DP is less than the level required for minimum subsistence. CONCLUSION: There were noteworthy differences in the time frame, organisation model and process leading to a DP in the two countries. These differences may explain why so few patients with less severe mental disorders receive a DP in Russia. This fact, in combination with the size of the DP, may hamper reforms of the mental health care system in Russia. |
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spelling | pubmed-19941642007-09-26 Between health care and social security – psychiatric patients and the disability pension system in Norway and Russia Rezvyy, Grigory Schönfelder, Walter Øiesvold, Terje Olstad, Reidun Midré, Georges BMC Health Serv Res Research Article BACKGROUND: The official statistics of persons with mental disorders who are granted disability pension (DP) in Russia and Norway indicate large differences between the countries. METHODS: This qualitative explorative hypothesis-generating study is based on text analysis of the laws, regulations and guidelines, and qualitative interviews of informants representing all the organisational elements of the DP systems in both countries. RESULTS: The DP application process is initiated much later in Norway than in Russia, where a 3 year occupational rehabilitation and adequate treatment is mandatory before DP is granted. In Russia, two instances are responsible for preparing of the medical certification for DP, a patients medical doctor (PD) and a clinical expert commission (CEC) while there is one in Norway (PD). In Russia, the Bureau of Medical-Social Expertise is responsible for evaluation and granting of DP. In Norway, the local social insurance offices (SIO) are responsible for the DP application. Decisions are taken collectively in Russia, while the Norwegian PD and SIO officer often take decisions alone. In Russia, the medical criterion is the decisive one, while rehabilitation and treatment criteria are given priority in Norway. The size of the DP in Norway is enough to cover of subsistences expenditure, while the Russian DP is less than the level required for minimum subsistence. CONCLUSION: There were noteworthy differences in the time frame, organisation model and process leading to a DP in the two countries. These differences may explain why so few patients with less severe mental disorders receive a DP in Russia. This fact, in combination with the size of the DP, may hamper reforms of the mental health care system in Russia. BioMed Central 2007-08-16 /pmc/articles/PMC1994164/ /pubmed/17705818 http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/1472-6963-7-128 Text en Copyright © 2007 Rezvyy et al; licensee BioMed Central Ltd. http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/2.0 This is an Open Access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License ( (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/2.0) ), which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited. |
spellingShingle | Research Article Rezvyy, Grigory Schönfelder, Walter Øiesvold, Terje Olstad, Reidun Midré, Georges Between health care and social security – psychiatric patients and the disability pension system in Norway and Russia |
title | Between health care and social security – psychiatric patients and the disability pension system in Norway and Russia |
title_full | Between health care and social security – psychiatric patients and the disability pension system in Norway and Russia |
title_fullStr | Between health care and social security – psychiatric patients and the disability pension system in Norway and Russia |
title_full_unstemmed | Between health care and social security – psychiatric patients and the disability pension system in Norway and Russia |
title_short | Between health care and social security – psychiatric patients and the disability pension system in Norway and Russia |
title_sort | between health care and social security – psychiatric patients and the disability pension system in norway and russia |
topic | Research Article |
url | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC1994164/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/17705818 http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/1472-6963-7-128 |
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