Why and how the Russian health workforce is different?

Danishevskiy K. D.
Doctor of Medicine, Professor¹

1 - Higher School of Economics, Moscow

The paper uses the outcome of the research project funded from the Basic Research Program at the National Research University Higher School of Economics.

The question of the optimal quantity of staff and rational structure is a common problem for all the world's health systems. The share of employed in the health systems of developed countries is much higher than in Russia. At the same time in the Western countries, compared with Russia, there is almost half the number of doctors per capita, a similar number of nurses, and a much larger number of employees of other categories, the so-called related personnel. Despite the constant optimization of the personnel policy in countries with medium to high levels of economic development there are no common approaches to the formation of the structure of health care professionals.

health care system, medical personnel, medical specialty, personnel structure, wage-rates

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