Semashko model

[5] In the Semashko model, medical services are provided by a hierarchy of state institutions under the supervision of Ministry of Healthcare and are financed from the national budget.

[1] For the country's citizens, medical services are free and equal, with an emphasis on social hygiene and prevention of infectious diseases.

[1] In the Soviet Union under this model all of the country's territory was divided into districts, with outpatient hospitals and local physicians assigned to each of them.

[1] A special feature of the Semashko model is the "method of dynamic dispensary surveillance", which holds that every detected case of a serious disease should be subjected to a certain set of guidelines, including planning curative activities, documenting them, ensuring the required number of contacts with specialists, a monitoring process and outcome indicators.

[citation needed] The model substantially improved the population health relative to the starting point of its implementation in the late 1920s.