The comparative analysis of effectiveness and efficiency of health care systems functioning causes a number of difficulties due to different indicators applied in countries as assessment tools, different data collection mechanisms and differences in nature and dimension of determining indicators. To ensure comparability of absolute values of various indicators and possibility to compare activities of single medical organizations and effectiveness of health care system of both various Subjects of the Russian Federation and health care system as a whole, it is possible to apply different rating techniques. The article presents comprehensive comparative analysis of activities of health care systems based on construction of rating using integral indicators of public health: indicators of key functioning of health systems (financial support and infrastructure development), total mortality from non-communicable diseases, probability of dying at the age of 30 to 70 years from any of cardiovascular diseases, cancer, diabetes or chronic respiratory diseases, universal health coverage index, life expectancy (at birth and at the age of 60). The comprehensive comparative analysis of results permitted to to conclude that the greatest financial costs for health care and best level of infrastructural support (beds and medical personnel) in countries with health insurance system. At that, according to ranking results and all selected integral public health indicators, health insurance system took the first place.