Organizational and legal determinants of implementing international experience in the health care sector of Ukraine.

OBJECTIVE

Introduction: The reform of the health care system, which is taking place in Ukraine today, is aimed at increasing the efficiency of providing timely and quality medical care. The aim of the paper is to provide theoretical and practical study of existing models of organizing the health care system in the leading foreign countries, as well as to substantiate the possibility of implementing the most optimal of them in Ukraine.

PATIENTS AND METHODS

Materials and methods: The author of the article has used the methods of analysis and synthesis, as well as comparative and legal method. In particular, the author has carried out the analysis of the experience of different countries in organizing the health care system.

RESULTS

Review: The author has studied international experience of legal regulation of the relations in the health care sphere, which use private, state and mixed models of the organization and financing of the health care system.

CONCLUSION

Conclusions: The author has emphasized on the necessity of using the latest achievements of the leading foreign countries in the sphere of the organization of the health care system and the establishment of additional guarantees for the financially disadvantaged groups of citizens, through the development and financing of social programs for the availability of medical care (based on the model of existing Medicare and Medicade programs in the USA); the application of marginal maximum prices for health services provided by private health care facilities (Japan); introduction of compulsory payment to the insurance fund from the income of legal entities employing hired labor (Germany), etc.