Sanitary-andepidemiologic regulation of living conditions of persons with disabilities

Abstract

After ratification of the Convention on the rights of persons with disabilities (hereinafter — the Convention), Russian Federation has started to bring the national legislation into compliance with the requirements of the Convention in terms of social policy on the rights of persons with disabilities and during 2013–2017 developed a number of legislative and regulatory acts to implement the main provisions of the Convention. Assessment of compliance of regulatory and legislative acts of Russian Federation and the results achieved in terms of providing disabled persons with conditions equal to other people, as regards the access to places of residence for independent living and integration into society without discrimination is an urgent task and the purpose of the study, which included: study of principles and standards of the Convention on the rights of persons with disabilities and measures to implement the right of persons with disabilities to an independent lifestyle in the legislation of Russian Federation; the study of sanitary legislation on the presence of requirements to ensure favorable conditions for the independent living of disabled people in apartment buildings on an equal basis with other people and followed up cohabitation of small groups of disabled people in separate living accommodations.