ИСТИНА

Today public health is an important indicator of progress and social and economic development. There are many different methods of measuring public health, from public opinion polls to comprehensive medical examinations. In this paper we continue research of public health using an integral index - the Public Health Index (PHI), which integrate most objective indicators of public health: infant mortality rate, life expectancy at birth for men and for women. These indicators have several important advantages: there is data for almost all countries, they do not require expert assessment and they are reliable. Previously, due to this methodology was calculated the PHI in Russian regions and for the world. This index clearly illustrates changes in the public health. In this publication we will consider public health for the period from 2010 to 2014 in three countries of BRICS: India, Brazil and Russia.