Health is the main resource for social and economic development of the society on the whole, as well as of every individual. It is also the main criterion of the quality of a person’s life. Socio-economic factors, which tend to get transformed by socio-economic changes, play a key role affecting public health in Russia. Over the past several decades Russia has experienced a great number of socioeconomic reforms, which have significantly affected all sectors of life of the Russian citizens’. The mentioned above reforms were aimed at fostering competition, increasing the number of paid social services, and total implementation of information technologies. The sanctions, placed by Western countries on Russia, have also had their effect on the socioeconomic environment and conjured a number of institutional changes, as a result of import substitution. The purpose of the research is the evaluation of the socio-economic reforms impact on the public health level in Russia as well as an identification of the economic and social characteristics with the greatest influence on the Russian citizens health. By the application of correlation and regression analysis, this article has proved that all socio-economic transformations, presented in several economic indices, have influenced public health in one way or another. Such assessment was performed through the system of medical statistics indices. The analysis highlights the reforms which have had the most noticeable effect on Russia’s public health. These are the entrepreneurship institute development, health and education systems reforms etc. The results show that the following factors influence the health of Russian citizens greatly: earnings, growth of entrepreneurship culture, the use of information technologies and productivity growth. Most of the claims in this study have been supported by a number of international researchers.

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