Ministry of Health of Ukraine in the Mechanism of Interaction with the Public on Issues of Formation and Implementation of State Policy in the Field of Medicine
The publication is devoted to the study of the problems of the theory and practice of functioning of the Ministry of Health of Ukraine in the mechanism of interaction with the public on issues of the formation and implementation of state policy in the field of medicine during the transformation period. The functions and powers of the Ministry of Health of Ukraine regarding the involvement of civil society institutions and socially active citizens (the public) in improving legislation and management practices in the field of health care and conducting medical reform in Ukraine in 2016-2019 are analysed. The main subjects that provide the effectiveness of party-side democracy in the healthcare sector in Ukraine are studied. In particular, the processes of or ganizational and managerial transformations of the subunits of the Ministry of Health of Ukraine are investigated, which ensure the involvement of the public in the implementation of medical reform. The conclusion is substantiated that in the future it would be possible and desirable to create in the structure of the Ministry of Health of Ukraine a department (expert group) on interaction with the public in the field of formation and implementation of sectorial state policy within the existing directorates. For example, in the Directorate of Strategic Planning and European Integration. The main methods and forms of interaction between the Ministry of Health of Ukraine in the mechanism of interaction with the public on the issues of formation and implementation of state policy in the field of medicine are generalized and systematized. It is noted that the organizational and managerial mechanism of involving the public in the formation and implementation of state policy in the field of health care in Ukraine will be incomplete without differentiating civil society institutions in the medical sphere into medical organizations (associations); patient organizations; and human rights organizations with a clear understanding of the differentiation of the interests of each of these groups of civic organizations, as well as without understanding that the political actors and representatives of financial and industrial groups and business in the field of providing medical services, pharmacology and health insurance.