65.In order to achieve regional development, the forces of national security in cooperation with civil society institutions support the effective implementation of the powers of state bodies of the subjects of the Russian Federation and local self-governing bodies, by coordinating and implementing measures taken at the federal, regional, and municipal levels, directed at the development of the regional economic and social sphere, including the equalization of their budgetary provisions.

5. SCIENCE, TECHNOLOGY, AND EDUCATION

66.Strategic national security goals in the sphere of science, technology, and education are as follows:

—developing state scientific and scientific-technical organizations, capable of providing competitive advantages for the national economy and the needs of national defense, by means of effective coordination of scientific research and the development of a national system of innovation;

—increasing social mobility, the population’s general and professional level of education, and the professional qualities of highly qualified cadres, by means of the accessibility of competitive education.

67.A direct negative effect on national security in terms of science, technology, and education is caused by the country falling behind in the transition towards the next technological order, by dependence on imported deliveries of scientific equipment, instruments, electronic components, and strategic materials, by the unsanctioned transfer abroad of competitive domestic technologies, by unfounded unilateral sanctions against Russia’s scientific and educational institutions, by the insufficient development of the normative legal base and weak motivation to formulate policies around innovation and industry, by the low level of social protection for engineering-technical, professorial, and pedagogical, the low quality of general secondary education and of professional primary, secondary, and higher education.

68.One of the main policy directions of the Russian Federation in the medium term is determined by technological security. To this end, a state policy pertaining to industry and innovation is being perfected; fundamental and applied research, together with education, are defined as unquestionable priorities of the innovational development of the national economy; a system of federal and public contracts for the training of highly qualified specialists and workers is being improved; public-private partnerships are being developed in science and technology; conditions are being created for the integration of science, education, and industry; systemic research is being conducted in the interests of resolving strategic challenges of national defense, state and public security, and likewise of the country’s stable development.

69.In order to counteract threats in the spheres of science, technology, and education, the forces of national security in cooperation with civil society institutions implement the civil education of new generations in the traditions of the prestige of the scientist and the pedagogue, ensure the effectiveness of state regulation in relation to integrating science, education, and high-technological industry.

70.The resolution of national security issues in the area of science, technology, and education in the medium-and long-term are achieved by the following means:

—formulating systems of targeted fundamental and applied research and their support by the state in the interests of an organizational-scientific approach to achieving strategic national priorities;

—creating a network of federal universities and national research universities that would ensure, within a framework of cooperative relationships, the training of specialists for work in science and education, the development of competitive technologies and exemplary high-tech production, and the organization of high-tech production;

—implementing programs establishing institutions of learning oriented at training cadres to serve the needs of regional development, as well as the organs and forces of national security;

—ensuring the participation of Russian scientific and scientific-educational organizations in global technological and research projects, taking into account the state of the intellectual property market.

6. HEALTHCARE

71.Strategic national security goals in the area of healthcare and the health of the nation are as follows:

—increasing life expectancy, reducing disability and mortality;

—improving disease prevention and the provision of timely, qualified primary healthcare and high-technology medical assistance;

—improving standards of medical assistance and likewise of the quality, as well as effectiveness and safety of medicines.

72.One of the main threats to national security in terms of healthcare and national health is the appearance of large-scale epidemics and pandemics, the mass spread of HIV infection, tuberculosis, drug addiction, alcoholism, and the increased accessibility of psychoactive and psychotropic substances.

73.A direct negative effect on national security in the domain of healthcare and the health of the nation is exerted by the low effectiveness of the medical insurance system and the low quality of health-care specialist training and retraining; the insufficient level of social guarantees and wages for medical workers and insufficient financing for the system of high-technology medical assistance; the incomplete formation of a normative legal basis for healthcare oriented at increasing accessibility and implementing guarantees of medical assistance for the general population.

74.The state policy of the Russian Federation relating to healthcare and the health of the nation is geared at preventive medicine and also at preventing the spread of socially dangerous illnesses.

75.The main directions of national security policy in the sphere of healthcare and national health of the Russian Federation are determined in the medium term by the intensification of the preventative orientation of healthcare, focusing on preserving human health, and preserving the institution of the family, motherhood, fatherhood and childhood, as the foundations of social vitality.

76.The strengthening of national security in the area of healthcare and national health will be supported by enhancing the quality and accessibility of medical services, by using promising information and telecommunications technologies, by means of state support for promising pharmaceutical, biotechnological, and nano-technological research, and likewise by modernizing economic mechanisms involved in the functioning of healthcare and developing the material-technical base of state and municipal health-care systems, taking regional particularities into consideration.

77.In order to counteract threats to healthcare and the health of the nation, the forces of national security in cooperation with civil society institutions ensure the effectiveness of state regulation in the area of standardization, licensing, and certification of medical services, in the accreditation of medical and pharmaceutical establishments, in the provision of state guarantees for receiving medical assistance and modernizing the system of obligatory medical insurance, and in the definition of uniform criteria evaluating the work of centers for treatment and prevention at the level of municipal formations and subjects of the Russian Federation.

78.The resolution of problems of national security in the sphere of healthcare and the health of the nation in the medium and long term is achieved by the following means:

—formulating national programs (projects) for the treatment of socially significant diseases (oncological, cardiac-arterial, diabetic, and physiological illnesses, drug addiction, alcoholism) alongside the development of uniform approaches to the diagnosis, treatment, and rehabilitation of patients;