[The development of the system of medical rehabilitation based at the Russian health resort facilities: investment prospects].

The present work is devoted to the prospects for attracting investments for the maintenance and development of the medical rehabilitation practices based at the Russian health resort facilities. The article describes the prerequisites for the enhancement of the investment attractiveness of the development of the system of medical rehabilitation in the said institutions including the formulation and strengthening of the legal and regulatory framework, the capacity for the organization of the second and third stages of medical rehabilitation in the existing spa and health resort facilities, the attraction of the funds of compulsory medical insurance as an additional source of the financial support. The main legal documents regulating the organization and provision of medical rehabilitation based at the spa and health resort facilities are presented.

[Should a doctor take into consideration the influence of climatic factors? Deliberations on the occasion of the publication of a new monograph (the book of essays of arid medicine by Z.R. Zununov, I.H. Nurov, and S.Z. Zununova)].

The authors analyze the monograph of the Uzbek scientists professor Z.R. Zununov, I.

[Professor I.I. Grigoriev and its contribution to the national balneotherapeutic medicine (on the occasion of his 100th birthday anniversary)].

This work is dedicated to the memory of the eminent Russian health resort expert professor Ivan Ivanovich Grigoriev (1915-2002), the founder of the scientific school of meteoprophylaxis who created the organizational and methodological basis for weather forecasting with the medical implications. Ivan Ivanovich Grigoriev has made a great contribution to the research designed to elucidate the influence of the weather factors on the human body. Moreover, he was a prominent organizer of the health resort business in this country paying especially much attention to the construction of spa and health resort facilities and their therapeutic zonation.