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The impact of centralization on structural changes in healthcare: when it works
FRONTIERS IN HEALTH SERVICES. 2025. Vol. 5. Article 1484225.
Purpose: After a decade of post-Soviet decentralization of the healthcare in Russia the opposite trend has been dominating. This paper explores the impact of centralization of healthcare governance on the structure of the healthcare system in Russia, including shift in service delivery structure, the institutional organization of healthcare providers, and their interactions.
Methodology: We employ quantitative and qualitative analysis to study how centralization has contributed to restructuring service delivery with instruments of utilization planning, vertical health programs, and centrally determined pathways of patients flows in a multi-level health care system.
Findings: Centralization of healthcare governance has contributed to restructuring the Russian healthcare system, providing positive changes in structure of inpatient/outpatient care utilization, the organizational structure of service providers, and the structure of their activities. Inpatient care is increasingly replaced by outpatient care and day wards. Centralization contributed to creation of new types of medical organizations (perinatal centers, vascular centers, etc.), development of prevention, and strengthening of providers activity integration in a multi-level system of medical care. However, centralization has not been accompanied by the effective interaction of different levels of governance in developing structural reforms and their implementation in the regions. Uniform activities for the entire country do not take into account specific regional and local conditions. Some unified solutions are implemented in regions with negative consequences for the accessibility of care locally. The excessively centralized model of preventive measures does not provide an effective balance between detection of diseases and follow-up treatment. A so-called “new primary healthcare model”, initiated from the top, limits the development of alternative models that are needed in many regions of the country. The analysis concludes with a set of conditions that should be followed in designing and implementing a centralized model of healthcare governance.
Zaikin A., Vlasenko D., Zakharov D. et al., Diagnostics 2026 Vol. 16 No. 17 P. 1–15
Background/Objectives: Synolitic graphs (SGs) were developed for task-based fMRI, where
edge weights encode the discriminative power of pairwise regional features; whether similar
information can be recovered from resting-state data was untested. We benchmarked
SGs for autism spectrum disorder (ASD) classification using the multisite ABIDE-I dataset
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Vlassov V., The Lancet Public Health 2026 Vol. 11 No. 9 P. e604–e629
Background
Understanding the size, gender composition, and cadre mix of the health workforce and how it has evolved across time and locations can inform policies for planning, recruitment, training, and retention of human resources for health (HRH), and improvement of access to the health-care workforce among populations. Using comparable and standardised data sources, we aim to ...
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Moshkin A., Fedorov M., Arlazarov V. et al., Algorithms 2026 Vol. 19 No. 7 Article 523
Artificial intelligence (AI) technologies, which are being actively developed in modern medicine today, increase the speed and quality of patient care. This article mainly seeks to demonstrate the use of various options of computer analysis of clinical images to solve practical problems of increasing the efficiency of routine diagnostics using retrospective analysis, as well as ...
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Shartova N., Mironova E., Geo Journal 2026 Vol. 91 Article 78
The historical timeline of urban development profoundly shapes the contemporary form and functionality of cities. Traditionally, cities were planned with limited consideration for the promotion of a healthy urban environment. Using Nizhny Novgorod, Russia, a city that has evolved from a medieval market town to an industrial centre and later into a multifunctional city with ...
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Razo C., DeCleene N., Johnson C. et al., JAMA - Journal of the American Medical Association 2026 Vol. 336 No. 8 P. 673–696
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Objectives To estimate the global, regional, and national burden of ischemic heart disease and ischemic stroke attributable to elevated LDL-C (relative to 35-54 mg/dL) from ...
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Maghsoohi A., Pavlov V., Rouse P. et al., Health Care Management Science 2026 Vol. 29 Article 37
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Kuksa T., Этнографическое обозрение 2026 № 5 С. 142–163
My research fills gaps in medical anthropology and the anthropology of bureaucracy regarding practices of patient agency, medical discretion, and the production and routing of informed consent within the contemporary medical setting. Developing an ethnography of documents from a Latour Hull perspective, I examine informed consent forms as a network of non-human actors. My work ...
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van der Lubbe S. C., Moberg M. E., Aluquin D. et al., The Lancet Public Health 2026 Vol. 11 No. 9 P. e589–e603
Background
Road injuries are a leading cause of mortality and morbidity worldwide. Years of international efforts have aimed to strengthen policy engagement, including the 2020 UN General Assembly's proclamation of the Second Decade of Action for Road Safety (2021–30), targeting a 50% reduction in road traffic deaths and serious injuries by 2030. The aim of this ...
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Иванова А. А., Коган С. А., Горбунова Т. В. et al., Менеджер здравоохранения 2026 № 3 С. 96–105
The research r elev anc e is determined by the demand for telemedicine consultations (TMC) as one of health care digitalization pathways in Russian Federation. Telemedicine, regardless of the field, continues to prove its significant role, saving health resources without losing medical care quality. The TMC is regulated by federal level framework. Each year the ...
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Sun Z., Khvostikov A., Krylov A. et al., Machine Learning and Knowledge Extraction 2026 Vol. 8 No. 1 Article 8
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Хайлова Ж. В., Омельяновский В. В., Михайлов И. А. et al., Менеджер здравоохранения 2026 № 4 С. 41–52
The urgency of the problem of organizing effective medical care for cancer patients is determined by the steady trend of increasing incidence of malignant neoplasms, the high proportion of this pathology in the structure of overall mortality, as well as significant medical, demographic and socio-economic losses for society.Purpose of the st udy is to conduct ...
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Габриелян А. Р., Александрова О. Ю., Михайлов И. А., Здоровье мегаполиса 2026 Т. 7 № 2 С. 7–16
Objective. To evaluate the impact of a series of organizational measures for implementing innovative medical technology in a multidisciplinary hospital on patient quality of life based on patient self-assessments. Results. Patients who received care using innovative medical technology within a systemic organizational approach demonstrated a significantly higher level of overall satisfaction with the quality of care. ...
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Ахапкина Е. С., Омельяновский В. В., Тулупова О. Н. et al., Медицинские технологии. Оценка и выбор 2026 Т. 48 № 2 С. 70–77
OBJECTIVE
To analyze international approaches to assessing the labor complexity for different specialists with higher medical education (physicians).
MATERIAL AND METHODS
We performed a systematic searching and content analysis of foreign and national studies and documents devoted to labor complexity of different specialists with higher medical education (doctors). A group of experts among the authors of this study discussed and identified significant factors in assessing complexity.
RESULTS
There are 2 main systems to assess physician workload complexity in foreign countries. The first approach is based ...
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Arina Bukina, Eritsyan K., Antonova N. et al., Frontiers in Psychology 2026 Vol. 17 Article 1824428
Background:
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Vlassov V., The Lancet Infectious Diseases 2026 P. 1–12
Background
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Liapin G., Vlassov V., DIALOGUES IN HEALTH 2026 Vol. 8 Article 100317
Objectives
Due to the economic growth at the end of the 20th century, people in low-income countries live longer but still spend most of their income on food. These countries, as well as affluent countries, demonstrate a rising prevalence of obesity. The interplay of longevity and obesity at different levels of economic development is not clear.
Methods
We ...
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Алексашина А. О., Русских С. В., Тырановец С. В. et al., Менеджер здравоохранения 2026 № 4 С. 53–60
Given the increasing prevalence of carbohydrate metabolism disorders in pregnant women, a validated tool is needed to assess the competencies of physicians involved in the multidisciplinary management of this pathology.
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Лебедева Д. А., Вестник Воронежского государственного университета. Серия: Право 2026 № 1 С. 66–77
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Фандюшин М. В., Вестник юридических исследований 2025 Т. 4 № 4 С. 49–55
The article is dedicated to a comparative analysis of centralized, decentralized, and hybrid management structures for transportation systems, with a focus on their applicability in the Russian Federation over the long term up to 2050. The aim of the study is to identify the most effective management model to overcome historical lag and ensure sustainable ...
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Klementev I., Скиф. Вопросы студенческой науки 2025 № 2(102) С. 183–190
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Potapchik E., Профилактическая медицина 2025 Т. 28 № 9 С. 7–14
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Maksimov A. G., Telezhkina M., / NRU Higher School of Economics. Series EC "Economics". 2024. No. 271.
The paper examines similarity of models with structural changes among heterogeneous panel data units. We propose applying a cosine metric to compare angles between vectors of weighted coefficients as a measure of closeness of economic models. Testing whether the cosine metric value is zero against nonzero, positive, and negative alternatives enriches traditional testing results. The ...
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