Normative Legal Regulation and Organizational and Methodological Support for the Functioning of the Disaster Medicine Service of the Ministry of Health of Russia: Status and Some Ways to Improve Them

Summary. Investigation purpose – to analyze and assess status of normative and legal regulation, organizational and methodological support of functioning of Disaster Medicine Service of Ministry of Healthcare of Russia; to determinate some ways of its further improvement. Materials and methods of investigation. Materials: legal and legislative acts of the Russian Federation, normative and methodological documents used in the healthcare sphere of the country, including the Nationwide disaster medicine service and Disaster Medicine Service of the Ministry of Healthcare of Russia (DMS); questionnaire on assessment of normative and legal support of Service work, filled by DMS specialists; scientific publications on actual issues of the investigation topic. Methodes: historical method, method of content-analysis and expert assessment, statistical method, method of logical and informational modelling, analytical method. Results of investigation. In the research there are results of the study and analysis of status of normative and legal regulation, organizational and methodological support of the Service functioning, determining procedure of organization and provision of medical care and medical evacuation of victims in emergencies; inadequacy of these documents was shown and proved; the main ways of improvement of normative and methodological support of DMS working were proposed.