[Qualification standards and their role in the evaluation of the level of professional skills of social hygienists and public health administrators].

Further increase in public health requirements specified by the scientific and technological progress raised the problem of objective appraisal of professional skills of social hygienists and public health administrators. The pattern of qualification references of social hygienists and public health administrators was proposed along with the examination requirements. Qualification references could be also used for the development of the curricula and educational programmes for social hygienists and public health administrators, for planning the demand for such specialists and their advanced training in the system of postgraduate medical education.