The study of health comittee reports about the disabled given by Gaziantep university şahinbey medical faculty research and application hospital between january 2004-july 2007

It is a necessity for a modern society concept to provide fully participating of thedisabled in society life and to promote their life standards. The disabled aren't able to benefitfrom many of the advantages which normal healty people make use of. The broad advantageswhich developped countries provide for the disabled are increasing directly proportional tosocioeconomic levels of that countries. Practices of social security remains as an effectivemean in society to provide a just sharing and equality. First of all, it must be admitted that thedisabled need to be employed much more than healty people.In our study, between January 2004-July 2007, reports of 601 cases which apply forgetting disability medical certificate were studied retrospectively. There were men andwomen in study respectively 494(%82.2) and 107(%17.8). The cases applied mostly in theages of 21-40. For 205(%31.1) of them, disability retirement was decided. As our studycovered the ones who are disabled and want to document this with a certificate, the rates ofdisability retirement appeared high than other studies which performed in Turkey on generalpopulation.With the start of practicing of disablement and disabled schedule which appear in officialgazette dated July 16, 2007, issue 26230, practicioners have had problems. This problemsstemming from deficiencies and errors in the schedule proves that organizations andinstitutions concerning the disabled are disorganized and so should act in coordination.As this reports covered the phenomenons applying to our Hospital, we can comment onother similar phenomenons without reports and this data can be a step to other similar studies.In our country, that the number of studies concerning this subject are very few and database islimited; the practices about the disabled are conducted by different institutions with divergentlaws show that necessary importance to the disabled isn't given.Key Words: The Disabled Health Committee Report, Disability, Rehabilitation, DisabilityCategories