THE ISSUES OF PROVISION OF HOSPITAL BEDS FUND IN RURAL AREAS
The cost of inpatient care is constantly growing, so the important task is to achieve high efficiency of using bed facilities of central district hospitals (CRH). The budgets of rural hospitals are substantially limited due to the low value of the number of attached population compared to urban hospitals, so servicing a large number of beds for them is financially inexpedient. As a result of active development of hospital-replacing forms of providing medical care part of the load goes to out-patient-polyclinic help, that is on early evaluation and diagnosis of human health, and the use of predominantly day hospitals. This direction allows you to save personnel, material, financial and information resources, due to the decrease in idle times of beds. However, this trend was not detected in all regions of the Central Federal District, which were considered in the article. Therefore, the dynamics of the positions of the subjects of the Russian Federation on the provision of beds to the rural population was revealed in the article by using the method of ranking. The research revealed the factors limiting the development of health care in rural areas, which concern the low material-technical base of medical institutions of the physical and the obsolescence of equipment and lack of maintenance and overhaul of the central regional hospitals. The article notes the difficult socio-economic situation of the population living in rural areas - poor working conditions, low income, territorial remoteness from the city center, distrust of medicine and the conservatism that defines the development of self and the various manifestations of immoral behavior, for example, alcoholism, smoking, drug abuse.