The article is devoted to the new, though rapidly developing social and economical phenomenon in health care system of Russia - Public-Private Partnership (PPP). In this research 23 registered medical centers based on PPP and currently in operation were determined. The purpose of the study is to...

The paper examines healthcare in the anti-Bolshevik Northern Region during the Civil War in Russia. The author focuses on structures and institutions of the healthcare system, their methods and resources, as well as geographical peculiarities of the Northern Region concerning medicine. The main...

The objective of the paper is to explore the role of maximum waiting times targets in improving access to health care in the context of the country with limited financial resources. The study indicates that most of targets in Russia are unrealistically low, while institutional and operational...

In 2014–2016, total fixed investments in real terms in the health care system decreased to 50.4% against their peak seen in 2012. Budget investments reported the highest drop (in 2016 – 43.7% of the maximum). Dynamics of fixed investments at the expense of own funds of the medical...

This report examines three critically important areas to inform discussions on the appropriate level of health care spending in the Russian Federation: (i) the efficiency of spending on health care services; (ii) distributional impacts of spending on health care services; and (iii) the key...