Structural changes in the Russian health care system: do they match European trends?

Health Economics Review

Table 2 The utilization of medical care in Russia: federal targets and actual values, 1998–2019

		1998	2000	2005	2010	2014	2015	2019
Outpatient care
Number of physician visits per person	Target	9.198	9.198	9.198	9.5
Number of physician visits per person	Actual			8.523	9.312
Number of physician visits for preventive services per person	Target					2.77	2.9	3.61
	Actual					3.772	3.735	3.598
Number of outpatient care episodes per person (normalized number of visits per episode)	Target					2.12	2.15	2.24
	Actual					2.019	1.915	1.617
Day care
Patient-days per person	Target	0.749	0.749	0.577	0.590	0.665	0.675
Patient-days per person	Actual			0.457	0.523	0.597	0.619
Inpatient care
Bed-days per person	Target	2.902	2.813	2.813	2.78
Bed-days per person	Actual	3.317	3.298	3.038	2.733
Hospitalization per person	Target					0.197	0.193	0.189
Hospitalization per person	Actual					0.205	0.200	0.192
Ambulance (Emergency) care
Emergency calls per person	Target	0.340	0.318	0.318	0.318	0.318	0.318	0.300
Emergency calls per person	Actual	0.346	0.362	0.339	0.336	0.303	0.307	0.293

Note: The target indicators have changed several times, which does not allow the collection of long time series. Table 1 is built using the target indicators set in the corresponding period of time
Sources: For target indicators – Government of the Russian Federation [42]; for actual indicators – Ministry of Health of the Russian Federation [43].

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