The preparedness of consumers and health care providers to the prevention of cardiovascular diseases

Abstract

Russia’s health care prevention orientation was the top priority in the Soviet period, and still is nowadays. Social-economic and political changes in the society as well as health care transformations have negatively influenced the prevention system, destroyed organizational inter connections, changed the mental mood for medication work. The introduction of compulsory medical insurance has not led to the improvement of prevention programs financing and has not let medical staff get interested in the final results of their professional activities. Alongside that, the analysis of sanitary statistical data has pointed to the continuing growth of cardiovascular diseases numbers. Thus, the pathology prevention improvement issue needs intent attention. To put an and to the status-quo in conditions of the prevention work underfunding a major emphasis has to be made on the increase of gnostic preparedness level of medical preventive services deliverers and consumers, that is medical staff knowledge level and patients awareness level increase. The necessity of simultaneous impact on the above mentioned objects is determined by the systemic approach principles when in the process of medical service delivery a medical service consumer-deliverer system is being formed, preventive in particular, and its functioning resultativeness will be seen through, among others, the degree of its components preparedness for coordination.

Keywords

gnostic preparedness / health care providers / consumers of medical services / cardiovascular disease / physician / medical personnel / efficiency

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