[Problems in improving information supply in the public health administration]

F. G. Grigoriev (Soviet Public Health, 1989, No. 2, p. 31-36) raised an issue of the necessity to considerably reduce the amount of annual statistical reporting of curative and preventive institutions. The preparation and drawing up of such a report in its present form require an unjustified lot of time and means. But it is advisable to broaden this task and to solve it as a problem of optimizing the information supply of public health management with allowance made for its present state and prospects of development for the nearest 8-10 years. The problem could be solved by rationally reducing the number of insufficiently informative and duplicating forms of reporting, sections (tables) of annual statistical reports and by a wider introduction of paperless informatics system.