Health care financing: methodological approaches and Russian practice
The paper discusses issues related to one of the most important elements of the health care system, namely, its financing. The first part presents main methodological approaches to health financing, basic models and their classifications, emphasizes the unity of financing and organization of health systems, highlights current problems in allocating funds for health care and related health reforms. The second part deals with the public- privet mix in health financing in Russia, based on WHO data its volume and structure. This allows the author to identify key problems which in the long term would have a significant impact on the development of health care system in Russia.