SOCIAL INSURANCE FOR TEMPORARY DISABILITY: MAIN CHANGES AND OPPORTUNITIES FOR STUDYING INDICATORS

Abstract

The purpose of the work is to analyze the main changes in the social insurance system and the regulatory framework for examination of temporary disability in the period from the 30s of the 20th century to the first decades of the 21st century (until the creation of the Social Fund of Russia), give a description of the indicators used for characteristic of the term temporary disability (TD) and study their main changes. The content analysis of 42 regulatory documents, methodological materials for the examination of TD, accounting and reporting documentation, digests of statistical information of the regional and federal levels was used. The main changes in the management of the social insurance system concerning the event of TD, the financing of insurance payments, the functions of the sick leave, and some aspects of the examination of TD cases are considered. Based on normative documents, the reason for the transition from a set of indicators of morbidity with temporary disability, calculated in the Soviet period, to indicators characterizing the state of TD nowadays , is shown.