Health care as the most important resource for social and economic development of the country

The article deals with the problem of availability of health care to population and reduction of the people’s personal “catastrophic spending” on medical services payment. The authors consider the issues of interrelation between population health and economic development in countries. On the example of the leading developed countries theу show that health care becomes one of the main resources for successful development of society and a criterion of the government activities efficiency. The trends in the Russian health care are examined from the point of the global change in the paradigm of society development: from the major consumer of budget funds to an important participant in the formation of national GDP and ensuring of the population well-being. This is of exceptional importance for doing away with the lagging in the global processes concerning the concept and development of health care. In our country in 1995-2012 personal assets of people were used as a compensating measure for reducing the share of public funds in the total health care funding, over this period their share increased by 2.1 times. This lead to a growing inequality in the availability of quality medical services to population, piling of unsatisfied needs for medical care and health protection. The obtained results substantiate the necessity of adoption by the RF Government of a concept for health care development in the country to ensure the complete coverage of the population with quality health care that would allow the RF citizens to exercise their constitutional right to health protection.