Population Health as a Nationally Significant Resource in the Context of Expensive Money

Abstract

The study is devoted to the topical issue of population health reproduction, which due to the global transformational crisis and sanctions pressure on the Russian economy requires special attention from the state. Ensuring the standard and quality of the population’s life in the Russian Federation is carried out in accordance with the constitutional norms for protecting public health, ensuring active longevity, and improving the quality of life, which is the key to the sustainable development of the domestic economy. The aim of this study is to show that preserving the health of the population in the Russian Federation is currently a recognized strategic priority in order to ensure national security, which has predetermined the scientific tasks of analyzing health as a complex socio-economic category. For the first time, the article shows that health is both a state priority and a significant resource, a special commodity or a social elevator, as well as a criterion for the functioning of a number of socio-economic institutions. The article describes the quasi-social nature of the supply of goods and services outside the public health system against the background of such phenomena as financial poverty, which occurs as a result of general and medical inflation. The study shows that the family budget deficit of highly qualified and sought-after specialists, including medical professionals, does not allow forming effective financial strategies and creating a full-fledged market demand in the private medicine market. The analysis of state support measures for public health in modern conditions has made it possible to identify the optimal option for ensuring its savings — a surplus of direct state financing of the healthcare system, supplemented by indirect measures to maintain the market of medical products and services in a state of effective competition.