Overview

The Russian government has introduced a new national project to strengthen primary care that will run from 2019 to until 2024. Over this period, there are ambitious targets to further improve population health as well as sector specific targets to improve the supply of health workers in primary care and modernise primary care facilities. A distinctive feature of primary care policy in the Russian Federation is the inclusion of extensive health checks, which will be expanded to cover the whole population in an attempt to address a high burden of non-communicable diseases.