SOCIO-ECONOMIC REASONS OF OVERAGE OF DENTISTS IN THE FEDERAL DISTRICTS OF THE RF
Among the main staffing problems is the imbalance of health care professionals, primarily doctors, since there is a shortage in some of the most important specialties, while in others there is an excess. All this creates an unequal level of accessibility of certain types of medical care for the population. The existing personnel and educational policy have a number of shortcomings, leading to a structural imbalance of specialists in many specialties, including medicine. The methods used for planning the volume of training of medical personnel even slightly smooth out the existing problems, but they are not able to fully solve them. The healthcare personnel market is mostly focused on those specialties for which effective demand from the population is ensured. This, combined with the active growth of the paid medical services sector, forms a separate business area that is not aimed at solving social problems facing the state. The study examined the socio-economic reasons for the overabundance of dentists in the federal districts of the Russian Federation. It was found that, despite the trend towards a decrease in the number of dentists in Russia by 2018, in 2019 there was another increase in the number of these specialists to 10.8 thousand people. Similar trends are observed in the federal districts of the country. At the same time, it should be noted that in the context of federal districts there is a significant differentiation in the number of dentists and the provision of the population with them, which is due not only to the size and density of the population of these territories, but also to a number of socio-economic factors.