DISTINCTIVE FEATURES OF SOCIALLY-HYGIENIC CHARACTERISTICS OF PATIENTS OF MUNICIPAL STOMATOLOGIC FACILITIES AND PRIVATE STOMATOLOGIC CLINICS
Rapid development of private business in sphere of providing stomatologic care to the population is one of the most remarkable characteristics of permanent reforming of domestic public health services during the last two decades. As a result, the population has appeared before a choice: reception of a limited volume and kinds of free stomatologic care in municipal facilities or possibility to receive additional kinds of the stomatologic care in paid private clinics. The given choice has formed the basis for differentiation in streams of patients in various facilities of stomatologic profile. The present analysis was based on the data of questioning of 988 patients of stomatologic facilities in Stavropol territory, from which 412 were the patients of municipal and 576 - private facilities. Significant differences in social characteristics of compared groups have been marked. So, almost 2/3 patients (62,4 %) of municipal facilities were pensioners, and among contingents of private facilities, pensioners made about 1/4 (27,7 %). Almost all contingent of patients of private stomatologic facilities was persons with higher education (76,9 %). In municipal facilities, patients with higher and incomplete higher education have made hardly more than a half of contingents (42,3 % and 13,4 % accordingly), and more than a half of them were pensioners. Among contingents of private facilities, there were no patients with an incomes level below than the average, and among contingents of municipal facilities, persons with a high level of income have made only 1,2 %. The conducted research has allowed to state that patients with higher educational qualification and an incomes level address to private stomatologic facilities. Pensioners and persons of efficient age with a low or average level of incomes more often address to municipal stomatologic facilities. The obtained data allow to state the need for further studying the given problem, in particular, patients' motivation and demand for special types of service provided in municipal stomatologic facilities. It can substantially change the work of stomatologic facilities of municipal level with taking into account the changes in conjuncture of demand for stomatologic care and prove real needs in free medical services provided within the limits of Mandatory Health Insurance.