Improving the Quality of Healthcare of Russia: Recommendations for State Authorities

The article analyses the social problems associated with the real state of the quality of medical care in Russia. Even though the Russian health care system is taking measures to improve the quality of medical care provided to the population, the socio-economic reforms carried out in the country require achieving a real effect from the measures implemented to ensure the growth of the quality of medical care in the health care system of the country. Currently, the Russian health care system does not study the opinion of the population about the responsiveness of the national health care system to the expectations of the population in improving the quality and accessibility of medical care. The authors identified the need for improving the legal acts of the Russian Federation in terms of regulation of legal regulation of ensuring a healthy lifestyle, ensuring the availability of quality medical care for the population, responsiveness of the Russian health care system to the expectations of the population. Dynamic changes in the state in these areas should be controlled by monitoring using a single officially adopted a method of measuring the opinion of the Russian population on the quality of medical care in the country’s health care system. The authors propose some practical recommendations to improve the quality of medical care of the Russian population.

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