Women's participation in health care development in Dagestan in the 1960s: history, problems

Satisfaction of the increased demands of medical institutions for trained doctors and secondary medical workers, ensuring gender equality in this socially significant matter, especially in its Muslim regions are considered to be the most important factors in the effective development of healthcare in modern Russia. This necessitates the analysis and use of the positive experience of previous decades. In this context, the experience of multinational Dagestan in the development of healthcare, including increasing its human resources, is of exceptional scientific, theoretical and practical interest. In this research, for the first time in regional historiography, an attempt is made to analyze the experience of the Republic's authorities in meeting the requests and needs of healthcare institutions in the personnel of medical workers in the gender aspect in the 1960s.

The article is based on the principles of scientific objectivity and historicism, descriptive and systematic research methods are used, which allowed us to recreate a full-fledged picture of the topic under study.

The analysis of the factual material allowed us to come to a reasonable conclusion that despite the objective difficulties and unresolved issues in the economic and socio-cultural development of Dagestan in the decade under review, there have been significant positive changes in the development of healthcare, including meeting the requests and needs of healthcare institutions for personnel with higher and secondary medical education. During this period, despite the decrease in the proportion of women in the medical staff, they continued to prevail. However, as it is traced in the article, by the end of the analyzed decade, significant difficulties and unresolved issues remained in the Republic in meeting the needs of healthcare institutions for medical personnel and secondary medical workers from among women, primarily Dagestanis, in rural areas.

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