healthcare. These include state financial guarantees,
the program of medical guarantees, the National
Health Insurance Fund, raising the status of primary
health care (PHC), the emergence of contracts.
According to Art. 95 of the Constitution stipulates
that "all expenditures of the state for public needs are
carried out within the funds provided for this in the
State Budget" (Petrashik, 2014). As it is limited, there
was a
need for mechanisms that would ensure
compliance with the Constitution. However, it did not
provide an opportunity to promise what the state
would never be able to do. The decision was a new
law, which introduced the concept of "state financial
guarantees". Currently, the state guarantees payment
from the budget in full for medical services, but only
those that are included in the Medical Guarantee
Program.
The program of medical guarantees, the draft of
which is currently being worked on by the National
Health Insurance Fund. It will be approved by the
Ukrainian Parliament as part of the Law on the State
Budget of Ukraine for the year and will contain a clear
list of services referred to as art.4 of the law "On a
state financial guarantee of medical care (Lehan,
2005), as well as tariffs.” Most likely, it will be part
of one of the annexes to the Law on the State Budget
to prevent a rapid change in tariffs for medical
services. However, the possibility to change them is
provided: tariffs should be fixed in the Law on State
Budget, but the Ministry of Health of Ukraine will
have the right to approve adjustment factors (Order of
the Ministry of Health of Ukraine, mandatory agreed
with the Ministry of Finance). During the transition
period, they are approved by the Cabinet of Ministers
of Ukraine (CMU), and since 2020 this right has
appeared in the Ministry of Health (Marchuk, 2016).
Every citizen of Ukraine is affected by changes in
the health care system. The purpose of the
transformation is to have the patient at the centre of
the health care system and to ensure equal access to
quality medical services for all citizens of Ukraine.
According to experts, the modernization and
reform of the health care system should outline goals
and objectives, the implementation of which will help
realize social aspirations and values in the direction
of the traditions of developed democracies. The
human right to have good health care must be based
on economic and social development and, most
importantly, on political stability.
Ukraine requires an effective functioning of
managerial, organizational, structural, legal,
economic, financial, information and communication
institutions. That is required to achieve optimal
results for the health of citizens (level, average
duration, etc.), financial security when receiving
medical care, as well as prompt satisfaction of
citizens' requirements and expectations and overall
efficiency of the industry.
In the long run, the system should be guided by
the following principles:
1. Guaranteed package of services available to
every citizen.
2. Compliance with national standards of quality
and professionalism.
3. Mutual respect for patients and medical staff.
4. Cooperation of various sectors of the economy,
services, organizations in the interests of patients,
communities and the population (intersectoral
cooperation).
5. Value for money and the most efficient, fair and
sustainable use of limited resources.
6. Accountability to communities and patients
(Kaminska, 2006).
That is, it is assumed that medical care services
are guaranteed in accordance with the constitution
without discrimination on the basis of age, sex,
national, religious, political or other characteristics.
Moreover, the state should address the issue of
providing medical services to more vulnerable
categories of citizens to ensure the necessary living
conditions. Today this is quite relevant, as Ukraine
lags far behind developed countries in these
indicators.
4 CONCLUSIONS
A study of the state of theoretical support for health
care reform in Ukraine and abroad suggests that
specific data on the state of society in a country
dictates ways and means to improve the organization
of the health care system and its state regulation.
Changing economic and social relations create the
conditions for the existence of different types of
health care systems.
Any health care system has a goal, which can be
formulated as providing affordable, high-quality
medical care to the population, improving the health
of society as a whole and each individual citizen.
Obviously, there is no ideal health care system
outside of a particular political and economic
situation. The development of society, science, and
health care practice forces to carry out reforms in this
area, to try to increase the efficiency of the country's
health care system, to improve its structure, to specify
the functions of the elements in health care systems,
optimize their interaction. Society determines the
features of the health care system, its legal basis,
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