[Standard legal regulation and creation of a law code as the most important stage of public health reformation]. / Normativno-pravovoe regulirovanie i sozdanie kodeksa zakonov kak vazhneishii étap reformy zdravookhraneniia.

The significance of a law-making process is substantially increasing under the conditions of intensified expansion of the scope of standard legal regulation in the field of human health care in the Russian Federation. The authors state that any law-making process should begin with the definition of the subject-matter of a future law, its role and value in medical law creation and also indicate that the choice of the subject-matter of a future law is of priority and the most important stage of its preparation from the points of both contents-rich and standard legal views. Moreover, the paper presents main groups of issues that can determine the subjects of sociomedical laws and states the basic rules how reflect systemic relations in legislation. The paper shows it important to create a code of laws in the field of health protection for legal assurance of health public reforms.

["Premature mortality" as an integral indicator of the quality of medical care]. / "Prezhdevremennaia smertnost' kak integral'nyi pokazatel' kachestva meditsinskoi pomoshchi.

Retrospective expert appraisal of the causes of premature death provides the possibility for raising the quality of health care, eliminating defects in the work of polyclinics and hospitals and also consolidating the main chains of health care. Reduction of premature mortality for preventable causes can lengthen expectation of life. When assessing the quality of health care it is recommended to apply an integral indicator of premature mortality.