Medical and psychological rehabilitation of military servicemen (employees): modern organizational trends and regulatory aspects
- Authors: Smirnov D.V.1, Naumov P.Y.2, Zemlin A.I.3
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Affiliations:
- St. Petersburg Military Institute of the Order of Zhukov of the National Guard Troops of the Russian Federation
- Main Military Clinical Hospital of the National Guard Troops of the Russian Federation
- Russian State Social University
- Issue: Vol 17, No 1 (2025)
- Pages: 437-460
- Section: Public Health and Preventive Medicine
- Published: 28.02.2025
- URL: https://journal-vniispk.ru/2658-6649/article/view/309225
- DOI: https://doi.org/10.12731/2658-6649-2025-17-1-1361
- EDN: https://elibrary.ru/NDNJDF
- ID: 309225
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Abstract
Background. In connection with the military-political events taking place in modern conditions, the participation of the Russian Armed Forces and other troops in maintaining international peace and security in various theaters of operations, the issues of the effectiveness of various types of support for military personnel come to the fore. In conditions where a large number of military personnel (employees) are involved in combat operations and the performance of special tasks, the risk of exposure to adverse factors of military labor and psycho-traumatic events on their health is objectively increased. In the structure of medical support for military personnel (employees), a significant place is occupied by medical and psychological rehabilitation, which is designed to restore the physical and mental health of military personnel through the organization of a complex impact. At the same time, the conceptualization of the organizational and legal foundations for conducting medical and psychological rehabilitation in relation to military personnel (employees) is an urgent scientific task, since it allows: to generalize the existing legal norms and understand the effectiveness of their functioning; identify contradictions and gaps in legal regulation; consolidate various regulatory legal requirements to simplify their understanding and practical application; as well as to improve approaches to maintaining and restoring the health of servicemen and persons equated to them.
Purpose. The work examines the organizational and regulatory aspects of medical and psychological rehabilitation of military personnel (employees), as well as the prospects for further knowledge of this phenomenon.
Materials and methods. For effective knowledge of the essence and organizational and legal foundations of the medical and psychological rehabilitation of military personnel (employees), systemic, comparative legal and integrated approaches are used in the work. The methods used in the study were: analytical, synthetic, structural-functional, analog-comparative, conceptual-generalized and comparative techniques and methods.
Results and conclusions. Based on the results of the study, the authors summarized the key regulations governing the passage (conduct) of medical and psychological rehabilitation by military personnel (employees). The algorithm for organizing medical and psychological rehabilitation and its relationship with medical rehabilitation and sanatorium treatment are substantiated. Directions for improving legislation in the field of medical and psychological rehabilitation and conducting rehabilitation holidays are noted. The main scientific results will be useful to university teaching staff, healthcare organizers, researchers of military and medical law, personnel of military-political bodies, legal and medical services of various law enforcement agencies of the Russian Federation.
About the authors
Denis V. Smirnov
St. Petersburg Military Institute of the Order of Zhukov of the National Guard Troops of the Russian Federation
Author for correspondence.
Email: denis_smirnov@211.ru
ORCID iD: 0009-0009-2520-4193
SPIN-code: 6584-5791
Candidate of Psychological Sciences, Head of the Department of General and Applied Psychology
Russian Federation, 1, Pilyutova Str., St. Petersburg, 198206, Russian Federation
Petr Y. Naumov
Main Military Clinical Hospital of the National Guard Troops of the Russian Federation
Email: petr.naumov.777@mail.ru
ORCID iD: 0000-0002-2875-2322
SPIN-code: 2750-3053
Candidate of Pedagogical Sciences, Assistant Head of the Hospital for Legal Work – Head of the Legal Support Department
Russian Federation, 101, Vishnyakovskoye highway, Nikolsko-Arkhangelsky microdistrict, Balashikha, Moscow region, 143914, Russian Federation
Alexander I. Zemlin
Russian State Social University
Email: zemlin.aldr@yandex.ru
ORCID iD: 0000-0001-8988-8517
SPIN-code: 1741-0737
Scopus Author ID: 57208147055
Doctor of Law, Candidate of Philosophical Sciences, Professor, Honored Scientist of the Russian Federation, Head of the Department of Human Rights
Russian Federation, 4/1, Wilhelm Pieck Str., Moscow, 129226, Russian Federation
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