The technology of sociological research as a systematic foundation of medical sociological monitoring

The last decades were marked by significant changes in the methodology of national studies of medical sociological issues. The medical sociological studies are especially important for practical physician because the comprehension of doctor's own role and patient's social role facilitates to decrease the number of errors in forecasting the sequence of actions. The practical implementation of medical sociological monitoring data allows marking out the most acceptable forms of alterating the system of mandatory medical insurance. Additionally, the legitimate approval of citizen the activities of reforming social sector can be received. The effectiveness of monitoring in public health can be increased at the expense of developing the permanent system of sociological information collection and the foundation of data bank on the level of particular institutions, districts, cities and regions. The development of modern information technologies allows implementing a more detailed analysis of medical sociological information in various profiles with more elaborated mathematical tools. These approaches provide an opportunity of long-tern information storage for its subsequent utilization with fast search of needed data.

medical sociological study, content analysis, lay-out pilot study, statistical observation technique, monographic study, psychological test, program, theoretical applied study, system analysis, social experiment, confidence factor