Economic development trends and aspects of healthcare reform in Russia under COVID-2019 pandemic

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Krivenko N.V. Economic development trends and aspects of healthcare reform in Russia under COVID-2019 pandemic. Living Standards of the Population in the Regions of Russia. 2021. Vol. 17. No. 4. P. 503-513. DOI: https://doi.org/10.19181/lsprr.2021.17.4.7 (in Russ.).

Abstract

The article is aimed at studying the state of the Russian economy and health care system before and after the COVID-2019 pandemic, identifying the main trends in the economy and health care, regardless of the pandemic, as well as its impact on the socioeconomic development of the country. The interrelation and mutual influence of the levels of development of the economy and health care of the country is noted. An analysis of the state of the economy and health care system in Russia for 2017–2019 is presented, problems and achievements in the pre-pandemic period are identified. The COVID-2019 pandemic is considered not only from the point of view of a medical manifestation but as a powerful trigger that provoked large-scale socioeconomic changes in the world, as a bifurcation point in world development, requiring states to objectively assess the state of the economy and healthcare, revise the current coordinate system, getting out of the state of uncertainty and choosing promising areas of socioeconomic development. A cross-country analysis of the response of various health systems to the COVID-19 pandemic has shown the advantages of countries with centralized management, health financing, and subordinate sanitary and epidemiological services. Along with the achievements of Russia in the fight against COVID-19, the existing specific problems of the domestic health care system are noted, which negatively affected the preparedness for a pandemic. Analyzed the consequences of the COVID-2019 pandemic for the socio-economic state of countries at the global level. The change in socio-economic indicators in Russia in 2020 compared to 2019 is presented as a result of the consequences of the COVID-2019 pandemic. The main results of the study are to identify the main trends in the development of the economy and the healthcare system in Russia in the context of the ongoing COVID-2019 pandemic, defining the directions of reforming the national healthcare, trajectories of increasing the level of socioeconomic development of the country
Keywords:
COVID-2019 pandemic, cross-country analysis, Russian economy, health care system, consequences, trends, socioeconomic development

Author Biography

Natalya V. Krivenko, Institute of Economics of the Ural Branch of the RAS, Ekaterinburg, Russian Federation
Doctor of Economics, Leading Researcher

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Received: 12.08.2021

Accepted: 03.12.2021

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Krivenko, N. V. (2021). Economic development trends and aspects of healthcare reform in Russia under COVID-2019 pandemic. Living Standards of the Population in the Regions of Russia, 17(4), 503-513. https://doi.org/10.19181/lsprr.2021.17.4.7