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Current state of disability pensions from the mental health indication in the Czech Republic and the mapping of its development since 2010

Publication at Central Library of Charles University |
2018

Abstract

There is a continuous decrease in disability pensions since 2010 within Czech Republic in men and women. However for mental disorders there is an opposite trend.

Mental disorders belong to the most common reasons of disability in Czech Republic. Currently, they are the second most common reason of all paid disability pensions and the thirst most common reason of newly admitted pensions.

In the long term are mental diseases involved in disability in 20%. There are two aims of presented study.

The first one is to map the current development of mental disability cases since 2010, when there was a rather significant change in the pension system in Czech Republic and the transition to multilevel invalidity system. The second goal of the study is to determine the current state of paid disability pensions from the causes of mental disease in Czech Republic due to various psychiatric diagnoses (F00-F99) defined in International Classification of Diseases (ICD-10).

Incidence of various psychiatric diagnoses will be observe in relation to sex and age of the recipients of disability pensions.