A new type of therapeutic and preventive care

Already from the first steps of the construction of Soviet healthcare, the need for not only organizational, but also functional restructuring of all medical care for workers began to be clearly felt, a network of medical institutions (b-c, outpatient clinics, nurseries, health centers, etc.) was rapidly developing. In the most remote corners of the Union, such types of medical care penetrated, which many cities could not have dreamed of before. This assistance has become both qualitatively high and accessible to workers. But this alone did not exhaust the development of Soviet healthcare. The latter transformed the very essence of medical care, functionally bringing it closer to the population, on the one hand, infusing into its new forms a new content of classism and prevention, corresponding to the new socialist forms of work and life. Outpatient associations that have developed into a single dispensary system cover not only purely medical institutions, but also institutions of social and preventive significance (night sanatoriums, dietstoles, day playgrounds, nurseries, day sanatoriums, homes for pregnant women, etc.). This whole system has its final grassroots health centers, which are the organizers of health care in the production itself, designed to directly participate in the resolution of all production tasks, in the implementation of the industrial plan. All these are the stages through which the development of Soviet healthcare passed.