[New methodologic approaches to solving the problem of determining the requirements for medical technology].

The authors analyze the main causes of the low standards of technical equipment of health institutions; substantiate the necessity of developing progressive standards of fitting out the treatment and prophylactic institutions with medical instrumentation and equipment; elucidate the principles of methodological approaches to the solution of the given problem; disclose the term "functional module" as the totality of the equipment with medical instrumentation of ward departments (reception rooms) of different profiles and subdivisions of the treatment and diagnostic services maintaining their work; describe the main stages of the designing of progressive equipment standards.

[Problems and prospects of improving hospital care planning in the USSR].

The necessity of planning the hospital network (bed capacity and its structure) in combination with social security institutions is validated. Thus, planning of the hospital network should be carried out in combination with social security institutions, the degree of development of other forms of medical services (hospitals at home, day hospitals, curative and diagnostic complexes, etc.) being taken into account.