Данная статья посвящена выявлению и анализу основных социальных особенностей процесса реформирования и модернизации системы здравоохранения. Отдельное внимание уделено роли восприятия и учету общественного мнения органами власти в процессе реформирования системы здравоохранения.

This article is devoted to identifying and analyzing principal social peculiarities in the process of health care system reformation and modernization. Based on rating monitoring of national healthcare systems efficiency worldwide such basic reasons for increased mortality rate in Russia were elicited, viz. limited availability of medical aid and inefficiency of receiving primary medical care. Moreover, we focused special attention to the perception and level of recording social opinion by the government authorities in the course of health care system restructuring.