INSTRUMENTATION OF THE HEALTH PROTECTION SPHERE STATE REGULATION IN UKRAINE

Health care is one of the most important functions of a modern state, because the recognition of a person as the source and, at the same time, the main driving force of society, is necessarily connected with the preservation and strengthening of the population’s life and health and creation of proper conditions for exercising a citizen’s constitutional right to health care. With the formation of the welfare state, legal implementation of public policy aimed at protecting public health, is possible only through the using of the efficient regulative tools in this area. The aim of the study is selecting the regulative instruments of health care in Ukraine for the further recommendations development. Carrying out the state regulation of the economy in practice is provided by different methods. Methods of state regulation of the economy ? this is how the state influences on the sphere of business, market infrastructure, non-profit sector to create conditions for their efficient functioning in accordance to the state policy trends. Each method is based on the use of aggregate public regulation mechanisms. Methods of state regulation of the economy are classified according to two criteria: by the forms of influence and by the tools of influence. The health care sphere includes several related markets: health care, medical technology, medical devices, health insurance, medical personnel work, educational services in health care and pharmaceutical market. Therefore, you should pay attention to a wide range of socio-economic relations that refer to health care sphere. Thus, the study of state regulation of health care sphere in Ukraine must consider the possible activities: stimulation of the supply expansion and improving the goods and services quality by creating favorable economic conditions; stimulation of the effective demand expansion for goods and services by ensuring the availability of their consumption. The regulative instruments of health care in Ukraine can be classified according to the following criteria: 1) depending on the method of state regulation by the influence instruments: the tools used within the administrative methods; instruments used within the economic methods; 2) depending on the method of state regulation by the influence form: tools used within the direct methods; instruments used within the indirect methods; 3) by the type of market health: the tools used for regulation of the relations in the health care market; the tools used for regulation of the relations in the medical technology market; the tools used for regulation of the relations in the medical equipment market; the tools used for regulation of the relations in the pharmaceutical market; the tools used for regulation of the relations in the health insurance market; the tools used for regulation of the relations in the labor market of medical staff and education in the health care sphere; 4) by the purpose of the tools using in health care markets: instruments used for promotion of the supply stimulation and the improvment of the goods and services quality; instruments used for promotion of the efficient demand stimulation. Thus, the classification of public regulation of health care in Ukraine is proposed. The feature of this classification is using the new classification criteria “by the type of market health”, that allows to select the regulative instruments for each related health care market in Ukraine. The results of the regulative tools analysis of health care sphere in Ukraine show its fragmented character than is the cause for its improvement because there is no integrated state regulation of the related health care markets. It complicates the process of market formation and reduces the efficiency of reforms in the health care sector.