The structure and level of disability due to chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD) and bronchial asthma (BA) among the working population in the Vinnytsia region in 2011 by reviewing the medical expert documentation of 692 people including 208 disabled people with COPD and 484 disabled people with asthma were studied. A lesser severity of disability and a younger age of people with BA as compared with COPD has been revealed, it is promising in terms of rehabilitation; a significant

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... tage of people whose disability is established for life; low indices of rehabilitation, particularly in COPD, and the necessity to elaborate recommendations on the medicosocial examination and rehabilitation of the contingent under study.