STAFFING LEVEL IN HEALTH CARE FACILITIES IN CONDITIONS OF STRUCTURAL CHANGES IN PUBLIC HEALTH SYSTEM IN RUSSIA
The medical staff is related to expensive resources, which demand big expenses for training of qualified specialists<i>.</i> Unlike the majority of resources, which value is reducing with the time, the value of health resources is rising with a growth in professional skill and experience. During several decades, the general strategic direction of the health resources policy was steady increasing the number of the medical staff while the qualitative level of specialists had the proof tendency to lowering. In the present article, the dynamics of health resources in the country during the last decade is analyzed. Attention is given to certain tendencies in staff provision of health care facilitates, which are mainly negative, a ratio between staff units in health care facilities and physical persons, doctor and nursing staff, etc.