[The mental care to population of the Russian Federation: the normative and organizational methodological...

The level of mental health of population is determined by effect and interaction of complex of individual, social and structural sources of stress and other factors. All the world, about 1 billion people suffer from mental disorders, including about 15% of adolescents. The death of people with severe mental diseases on average occurs 10-20 years earlier than in general population, mainly due to development of preventable somatic diseases. Currently, such disorders are observed in more than 150 million residents of the European Region. The needed medical care in case of such most frequent disorders as depression is provided only to 1 out of 3 people who need it. Despite increased attention to this problem in recent years, it is not yet resulted in concrete results of increasing provision of quality mental health services meeting needs of patients. In the Russian Federation, against the background of predominant coverage of clinical aspects of problem, there is clearly not enough inputs related to resource support of mental service. The purpose of the study was, on basis of results of comprehensive scientific analysis of information on main components of psychiatric care organization for population of Russia, with emphasis on children population submit materials from standpoint of public health and health care in terms of state of the base; manpower of this type of care (resources, security, qualifications); normative characteristics, including regular ones.