Healthcare System in Russia: Problems and Recommendations

HEALTH ECONOMICS AND COMPARATIVE HEALTH SYSTEMS
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HEALTHCARE SYSTEM IN RUSSIA
 In Russia, every citizen has a right to free public healthcare through
the Obligatory Medical Insurance(OMI) (Cylus & Papanicolas, 2015) .
 The OMI gets its funds from contributions by the employer where 2-
3% of the salary of each employee is paid as social tax which is later
paid to the national Russian healthcare fund.
 This free public healthcare was launched back in 1996.
 Since public healthcare is free of charge ,the majority of the citizens
have access to healthcare even though they are poor(Gvosdev,
2017).

THREE MAIN PROBLEMS IN
HEALTHCARE SYSTEM OF
RUSSIA The Russian healthcare system has of late received a lot of criticism
due to the different challenges that it has been experiencing.
 The three major problems of the Russian Healthcare system include:
1. Personnel issues like lack of qualified specialists(13.0%),problems in
human resources policy such salary level, working conditions
(11.0%) and poor quality and degraded training of new staff(10.4%)
(Medvedev, 2016).
2. Reduced influence and control of modern politics(17.5%).
3. Lack of adequate funding for the healthcare system(11.7%).