[Improving the system of public health financing].

The paper provides data on health status of children and adult population, and medico-demographic situation in the country. An account is also given of organizational and financial issues of medical care in foreign countries. The issues related to the organization of medical care, management of public health financing of the branch under new conditions are dealt with. On the basis of the experiment a new system of health services financing based on the principles of insurance medicine is proposed for introduction. The new system envisages such new organizational structures as health protection funds and insurance organizations. Functions of the existing managerial organizational public health structures at different levels are being changed, the status of medical institutions would also change and their responsibility for the quality of work would increase.