RURAL HEALTHCARE AT THE TURN OF XX - XXI
The paper examines the main trends, tendencies and problems of rural healthcare at the turn of the XX - XXI centuries. Improvement of healthcare services in rural areas, creating the conditions for modern medical care of the rural population has always been an important task of the social sphere, which, in its turn, directly affects the efficiency of the agricultural sector. The author concludes that in the 2000s the Russian state at the federal and regional levels sought to stabilize the situation in the rural health care, give it a modern content, identify the most effective ways of development.