Problems of Social Hygiene, Public Health and History of MedicineProblems of Social Hygiene, Public Health and History of Medicine0869-866X2412-2106Joint-Stock Company Chicot146010.32687/0869-866X-2024-32-2-240-245НеопределенThe personnel maintenance of primary health care physicians in condition of challenges from menaces to population healthKhabrievR Unot@provid.edKalininskayaA Aakalininskya@yandex.ruLazarevA Vnot@provid.edKizeevM Vnot@provid.edShlyaferS Inot@provid.edN. A. Semashko National Research Institute of Public Health, 105064, Moscow, RussiaThe Federal State Budget Institution “The Central Research Institute for Health Organization and Informatics of Minzdrav of Russia”, 127254, Moscow, Russia180420243222104202521042025Copyright © 2025,2025<p>In condition of challenges from menaces to health due to COVID-19 the role of primary health care physicians increases that requires development of management decisions at the regional level. The purpose of the study. On the basis of analysis of medical demographic indicators and data concerning provision of primary health care personnel in the Russian Federation, proposals were made related to reforming of primary health care system in conditions of implementation of general medical practice with purpose to counteract menaces to population health.<br />The analytical and statistical methods were applied. The official statistics data from the Minzdrav of the Russian Federation and Rosstat, results of original researches with content analysis and interpretation were used.<br />The COVID-19 pandemic negatively impacted population health. The indicator of newly detected morbidity in the Russian Federation in 2020 decreased as compared to 2019 from 78024.3 to 75989.7oo (by 2.6%). This is the result of decreasing of dispensary and preventive activities among population. In next COVID-19 year (2021), as compared to 2020, indicator of primary morbidity increased to 85531.6oo that 12.6% higher than in 2020. The increase occurred in all classes of diseases that caused necessity of rehabilitation of these patients. The COVID-19 morbidity increased up to 2.4 times i.e. from 3391.1 in 2020 to 8085.7oo in 2021. The provision of physicians in the Russian Federation was 37.7o in 2021. Across the Federal Okrugs differences in indicators made up to 1.3 times and in subjects of the Russian Federation up to 2.7 times. In conditions of COVID-19 significance of menaces to population health worsened. The situation requires both enhancement of primary health care and implementation of physicians of new formation general practitioners responsible for patient health. The general practice (GP) widely developed in Russia in the 1990s during last ten years loses its significance in most subjects of the Russian Federation. In 2021, provision of general practitioners in the Russian Federation made up to 0.67o. In the Federal Okrugs, difference between indicators made up to 5.6 times. In the subjects of the Russian Federation the difference is enormous 141.5 times. 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