[Prospects of elaborating the scientific basis for organizing the psychiatric services]

It is evident that the setting up of efficient psychiatric services today is not feasible without elaborating serious theoretical concepts. In the authors' opinion, the method which would make it possible to rapidly design the system of psychiatric services for any region on the basis of the data on its geography, population and resources rather than concrete universal services is to be the final product of the theory of psychiatric services. To design such a method, it is necessary to explore a number of important problems of the epidemiological and ++medico-demographic character. The authors provide a list of the studies to be carried out according to the indicated directions as well as of the problems to be solved within the framework of the investigations of the models proper of psychiatric services.