Accessibility of services «health centers» in Russia (on the example of the city of Moscow)

One of the strategic objectives of government social policy of the Russian Federation is to create conditions that orients citizens to a healthy lifestyle. Relevance of studies of healthy life due to a number of contradictions are: a healthy lifestyle, on the one hand, it is declared as a social value, its formation is urgently needed, a guarantee of preserving and strengthening the health of the individual, but on the other hand, the population of our country observed the prevalence of behaviors that destroy health .

Since 2009, the country implemented the program "Healthy Russia", whose main goal, the formation of respect for the health of citizens, based on the principle of a healthy lifestyle. To accomplish this objective, the Institute of Health set up and operate specialized agencies - health centers.

To determine the status and problems of functioning health centers in the area of healthy lifestyle of the population of Moscow, we conducted a case study case-study, including observation and role-playing interviews.

Despite the fact that the city of Moscow i whose population exceeds 10 million people in the city in early 2011 operated a total of 50 health centers. The study was conducted in March-May 2011 in 45 centers.

In the study, it was necessary to achieve the following objectives: to identify the conditions under which you can get information on healthy lifestyles, identify the manner in which such information is available, identify what the "School Health" function in the centers, to identify the conditions under which an individual program for maintaining healthy lifestyles. The study revealed several paradoxical problems with the health center.