Health Saving Technologies in Human Capital Formation as Exemplified in the Russian Far East Federal District

Abstract

The problem of the human capital is one of the most urgent issues of the present. The purpose of this article is to define the strategies of health saving technologies development in human capital formation. The paper draws on the research conducted by the All-Russian Public OpinionResearch Center (VCIOM) in 2001 -2015. The institutional approach is presented as the most fruitful in the research of problems of the human capital. The quality of human capital's reproduction is defined by the quality of social institutions participating in this reproduction and is, therefore, ensured by progress in family, health care, education and social protection of the population. In the most general view the activity of any social institution is aimed at satisfaction of social imperatives.Social imperatives are the main driving factor of human capital reproduction, accumulation and improvement. Therefore, health protection technologies in human capital formation should be aimed, first of all, at the satisfaction of needs of a person. As the structure of person's requirements and, consequently, the quality of the human capital can change throughout various periods of his/her life, health saving technologies should also be improved to stay on the rise.