Document Type
Article
Publication Date
3-2001
Publisher
Boston University Project on Technical Assistance in Legal and Regulatory Health Care Reform in the Russian Federation
Language
en-US
Abstract
True reform necessarily entails new law. In the newly independent Russian Federation, law has played a formative role in efforts to reform the health care system. Both historically and structurally, the health care system in Russia is more dependent on legal authorization than that in most Western industrialized countries. Reforms that providers might institute independently elsewhere are not likely to happen in Russia without specific laws authorizing them. Policy makers often formulate the substance of policy in the context of developing legislation, instead of drafting legislation to codify settled policy decisions. Thus, identifying and developing suitable laws has become an essential component of health care reform in Russia since the early 1990’s.
Recommended Citation
Wendy K. Mariner & Frank G. Feeley,
The Role of Law in Russian Health Reform: Report to the United States Agency for International Development
(2001).
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