Healthcare in Russia: Macroeconomic Parameters and Structural Issues
Journal: Studies on Russian Economic Development
Year: 2023

The epidemiological crisis of 2020-2021 has revealed a number of imbalances and "bottlenecks" that have developed in the Russian healthcare system over the past 20 years as a result of a policy of limiting development to breakthroughs in individual areas accompanied by optimization of the sector. It became evident that one of the most acute problems is interregional disparity in terms of personnel and resource availability in the healthcare system, which determines the system's ability to respon