Staffing, resource base of the healthcare system and population health in the Arkhangelsk region

Abstract

The main purpose of the health care system is to maintain and improve the health of the population. Staffing is the main resource of the health care system, which allows to achieve the set goals and objectives. In this regard, it is of interest to identify the links between the human and resource capacity of health care and the level of population health, which can indicate the rationality of implementation of health-preserving technologies.Aim: To establish a link between the levels of resource and staff potential of the health care system and population health in the Arkhangelsk region over the period 2010–2020.Material and Methods. Population health indicators (incidence, life expectancy at birth, total fertility rate, infant mortality, maternal mortality) and health system indicators (availability of doctors, beds, capacity of outpatient clinics, number of nurses) were used as the material. Autocorrelation functions, cross-correlation functions, autoregressive integrated moving average were used to identify relationships.Results. Resource and staffing indicators have no significant correlation with population health levels in the Arkhangelsk region over the period 2010-2020.Conclusion. Our study found no significant links between indicators of the resource and staff capacity of the health care system and population health in the Arkhangelsk Region over the period 2010–2020, which may be due to the qualitative and quantitative characteristics of the data used.