The way the health care system in ukraine looks like: international practices within national realities.

OBJECTIVE: Introduction: Nowadays there is the transformation of the national health care system in Ukraine, the ultimate goal of which is to create a modern, competitive model of medical care of citizens on the basis of forming packages of free medical services. However, the model adopted by Ukraine is in contradiction with national legislation in part of free medical aid guaranteed by the Art. 49 of the Constitution of Ukraine, and fragmentary considers positive international practices. The aim of the paper is to determine the mistakes of the reform of the Ukrainian health care system and to reveal the positive international practices of the organization of health care systems that can be implemented in Ukraine. PATIENTS AND METHODS: Materials and methods: National and international legislation, official web resources of the executive authorities of Ukraine, statistics of the World Health Organization, materials of journalistic and scientific periodicals are the materials for the research of the health care system in Ukraine in comparison with international practices. Research methods are cross-sectoral, complex statistical, comparative, generalization, analysis and synthesis. In order to obtain the results, the authors have conducted a critical analysis of the current norms of the national Ukrainian legislation in the health care sector. RESULTS: Review: The authors of the article have studied the main disadvantages of the national health care system in accordance with the concept of reforming the medical sector. Positive international practices that can be implemented into Ukrainian system for the real improvement of medical human rights in Ukraine have been revealed. CONCLUSION: Conclusions: It has been proved that the ongoing reform of the health care system in Ukraine needs to be reviewed and optimized. It has been offered to consolidate a perspective model of the Ukrainian health care system, its principles and guarantees of immunity at the legislative level.

Tendencies for the falsification of medicinal products in ukraine: general analysis and areas of counteraction.

OBJECTIVE: Introduction: Ukrainian counterfeit pharmaceutical market affects pharmaceutical manufacturers' image and threatens citizens' lives and health. The aim:of the article is to identify and systematize the causes and methods of pharmacy drugs' falsification, grounding the need for certain areas of counteraction. PATIENTS AND METHODS: Materials and methods: Empirical base includes Ukrainian legislation, international acts, statistical data of the WHO, State Register of Medicinal Products of Ukraine, General Prosecutor's Office of Ukraine, Unified State Register of Court Decisions, media materials, journalistic investigations. Methodological basis is a set of general and special research methods of scientific cognition. CONCLUSION: Conclusions: Expired drugs' repackaging; production in non-licensed enterprises; replacement of drugs by non-pharmacological substances, etc. were established as the most common methods of falsifying pharmacy drugs in Ukraine. The authors systematized the reasons for uncontrolled production's growth, established distribution channels for pharmacy drugs in Ukraine and offered the most effective ways for counteracting drug falsification.