[Role of material incentives of medical workers in the early detection and effective treatment of new cases of pulmonary tuberculosis in the Republic of Dagestan].

The authors studied the efficiency of material incentives in the amount of 300 rubles for each case to medical workers of the general health care network for early detection and to those of tuberculosis facilities for effective treatment us in 2001-2007. Due to the tuberculosis-controlling measures made in these years with the mechanism of material incentives to medical workers being introduced, the tuberculosis situation stabilized and the major epidemiological indices, such as morbidity, mortality, and prevalence, decreased by 1.3, 2.