The main activities of the Healthcare Economics and Management Research and Development Center at the St.-Petersburg Socolov Central Hospital are:

• Healthcare economics and management researches (resource usage efficiency measures, cost-effectiveness assessment, pricing, etc.)

• Work experience and research outcomes dissemination by means of elaboration, publication and distribution of books and advisory and guiding instructions brochures on wide range of healthcare economics and management problematic

• Educational training in healthcare economics, management, marketing and all the relevant.

Among other activities are: advisory and informational services rendering; marketing; business-planning.