[Trends in the development of research on the organization of ambulatory care]

The data on content--analysis of publications in journals of "Soviet Public Health" and "Public Health of the Russian Federation" indicate that problems of ambulatory health care organization can be regarded as the developing trend in science. The research devoted to the organization of out-patient care, issues of management in polyclinics, solving of their organizational and technical problems fails to keep pace with practice and requires intensification. Over recent years scientific interest for dispensarization has heightened dramatically. Apparently this trend will be developing rather intensively and will lead to changes in internal structure of research. Priority will be given to the research on the problems of computer-based management of dispensarization and evaluation of health of large groups of population with the help of automated systems along with further development of theory of dispensarization.