Regional programs for health: issues of implementation and evaluation

The article deals with the main problems of implementation and evaluation of regional programs and projects for the protection of public health. The authors show that the creation of an effectively functioning system of public health protection is an important element of the state policy of the federal and regional authorities, and the main emphasis in the activities of the state is made in recent years on the development and implementation of comprehensive prevention programs. The article indicates that the potential of regional concepts and programs are largely determined by the cultural-historical, age-sexual, religious and other features that characterize the population of individual territories and identifies the main factors determining the potential of regional prevention programs in terms of the formation of optimal models of self-preservation behavior. The authors propose quantitative and qualitative indicators to improve the procedure for assessing the effectiveness of regional health programs and concepts and show the necessity to apply an integrated approach to improve the effectiveness of the implementation of regional programs in the field of health.