[The problems of information availability for practising physicians].

Abstract

The authors examine the cause-and-effect relationship between changes in the socioeconomic situation and medical workers' motivation to have information. The availability of various channels of medical information is regarded as low; specifically, the possibility of studying at courses for continuous education of physicians or individual studies of medical literature. The authors offer arguments proving the necessity of providing financial and economic, legal, and other types of information to physicians, for working under marketing relations is impossible without such information. The problem of information supply to physicians should be solved at the level of universal purposeful and steady state policy The authors come to a conclusion about the need in crucial reorganization in the sphere of scientific medical information and creation of a universal information space with obligatory analysis of the information requirements of medical workers.