UNCLASSIFIED -- the fulfillment of state guarantees of the free provision of medical assistance to citizens, the enhancement of the financial stability of the compulsory medical insurance system, and the completion of its transfer to insurance principles; -- the enhanced effectiveness of normative-legal regulation in the sphere of licensing medical services, control over the work quality of medical organizations, and the introduction of single criteria for assessing the work of preventive medicine establishments at the level of Russian Federation components and municipal formations; -- the development of preventive medicine and primary medical-sanitary assistance and the introduction of new organizational forms of providing medical assistance, including in rural localities and localities where access is difficult; -- the enhanced effectiveness of providing specialized, including high-tech, medical assistance and first aid, including specialized medical first aid, and the improved organization of medical evacuation; -- the development of the motherhood and childhood protection service; -- the development of palliative medical assistance, including for children; -- the development and introduction of innovative methods of diagnosis, prevention, and treatment, and also the creation of the foundations of personalized medicine; -- the accelerated development of basic and applied scientific research in the interests of health care, and also the introduction of its results; -- the introduction of modern information and communications technologies; -- the creation of conditions to develop the pharmaceutical sector and to overcome its raw material and technological dependence on foreign suppliers, and also the availability of goodquality, effective, and safe medicines; -- the development of a system to monitor the biological situation on the Russian Federation’s territory; -- the development of the population’s medical rehabilitation and the improvement of the system of sanatorium-resort treatment, including for children; -- the training of sufficient numbers of specialists in the sphere of protecting citizens’ health, the enhanced quality of such training, and also the creation of a system of continuous medical education; -- the revival of traditions of charity; UNCLASSIFIED