[The characteristics of repeated medical social expertise of adult population of the Russian Federation in 2018-2020].

The medical social expertise is considered as recognition of a person as the disabled and specification, in accordance with established procedure, of needs of examined person in social protection measures, including rehabilitation, based on evaluation of disabilities caused by persistent dysfunction of organism. The main normative legal acts governing activities of institutions of medical social expertise are the Federal Law of November 24, 1995 "On social protection of disabled people in the Russian Federation", the Decree of the Government of the Russian Federation of February 20, 2006 № 95 "On the procedure and conditions for recognition disabled person". Because of COVID-19 pandemic conditions, the normative legal base has undergone a number of changes.