Issues facing the Russian Healthcare system

RUNNING HEAD: HEALTH ECONOMICS AND COMPARATIVE HEALTH SYSTEMS 1
Health economics and comparative Health systems
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HEALTH ECONOMICS AND COMPARATIVE HEALTH SYSTEMS 2
Issues facing the Russian Healthcare system
During the group discussion, I learnt various issues that affect the Russian healthcare
system. The three major problems facing the Russian healthcare include personnel issues such as
incompetent specialists and issues within the human resources such as low salaries, poor working
environment and shoddy training of new personnel (Cylus & Papanicolas, 2015). The other issue
facing the Russian healthcare system is insufficient funding of healthcare and insufficient
infrastructure, medicine supplies and equipment.
The Russian government spends very less on healthcare. According to different studies,
the amount allocated for healthcare in 2014 was only 5.9% of the Gross Domestic Product
(Gvosdev, 2017). This was very low as compared to other countries within the OECD that spend
as much as 9.3%.In the Russian healthcare system, the salaries of the healthcare workers still