Legal Characteristics of Medical and Social Rehabilitation During the Post-COVID Recovery Period

Abstract

Aim: The purpose of this article is a thorough review and assessment of the problematic issues of ensuring the post-covid restoration of health, work capacity, and occupational safety in current conditions. Analysis and generalization of components of individual types of rehabilitation and determination of measures to combat acute respiratory disease COVID-19. Materials and Methods: The research is based on the analysis of international documents, strategies, recommendations, guidelines, empirical and analytical data of the World Health Organization and the International Labor Organization; scientific and analytical research. The article is grounded on dialectical, comparative-legal, cysteine-structural, formal-legal, and analytical methods. Additionally, in order to establish the facts of the provision of rehabilitation procedures, a survey of 1,063 respondents who suffered COVID-19 disease was conducted through social networks. Conclusions: Rehabilitation is one of the main components of medical and social care. It is the rehabilitation after COVID-19 that makes it possible to eliminate the negative consequences of the suffered virus disease. Among the effective post-covid recovery rehabilitation measures special attention should be paid to innovative means that can integrate the social protection system. COVID-19 recovery should take place through the treatment provided by professional rehabilitators; an individual program should be developed for each patient who has sought help, which will depend on the patient’s state of health and needs; also, modern techniques and equipment must be used.