Abstract

The Health-Care System Issues and Prospects in the Russian Federation

Nikolay Nikolaevich Kalmikov and Natalia Vasilevna Rekhtina

The article involves an analysis of key health-care issues and considers external challenges for the health-care system in Russia until 2020, which should be taken into account while working out and implementing policy decisions in the area of long-term development of the health-care system in the Russian Federation. Priority areas and solutions to major problems are proposed in addition to prospects for medicine development aimed at futher planning of the “The health-care development” program. The article also analyzed the data collected from a survey by interviewing 143 experts. The main research method is an empirical analysis based on the online survey of experts in public administration and policy making.