The paradigm of the development for the regulatory and methodological framework aimed to maintain sanitary and epidemiological welfare of the population

The development of Russian legislation aimed at providing safety based on the risk assessment and management methods and technologies is a key paradigm in regulating relations in the field for the next few years and in the longer term. The importance of applying these technologies and methods to the field of maintaining sanitary and epidemiological welfare of the population is due to the hazards related to residential environment (exposure to chemical, biological, physical, psychophysiological factors), occupation, consumption of goods and services, lifestyle (imbalanced diet, alcohol consumption, smoking, low physical activity), social and other environmental factors that account for adverse health effects. Therefore it is necessary to revise the regulatory and methodological framework for the health legislation including the definitions for the fundamental health risk concepts based on identifying the acceptable risk limits as well as the concepts of safe and non-hazardous conditions and favorable conditions of human vital activity closely related to them. The suggested approach will make it possible to apply risk management technologies and methods more effectively in legislative regulation in the field of sanitary and epidemiological welfare, which in the short term will provide the capacities required to reach the strategic objective of Russia’s policy to provide safety, i.e. higher life expectancy and quality of life of Russian citizens.