scholarly journals MANAGEMENT OF UKRAINIAN HEALTH CARE ORGANIZATIONS

Author(s):  
Kateryna Poliak ◽  
Olena Polishchuk

The article analyses the construction of the health care system of Ukraine, the historical preconditions of its current state. The reasons that hinder the development of the industry, one of which is the urgent need for effective management, the development of which is complicated by a number of subjective and objective factors, including gaps in the legal field, insufficient competence of management, and their undesirable development and implementation of new management technologies. Positive changes in government regulations, promising areas of training have been identified. The educational and scientific program “Management in health care” (specialty 073 “Management”) and the requirements for the competence of specialists are also analyzed. The issue of the need to build and develop a new model of health care, which should correspond to the modern market economy, comprehensive and intensive reform of the health care system, related to the methods of management, financing, reorganization of medical institutions. In Ukraine, the heads of health care institutions are staffed mainly by doctors who, undoubtedly, have significant experience and high qualification in medical specialization, no longer have special training in management and economics of health care. It becomes obvious that the presence of special education is NOT a priority sign during the appointment to the position of head of a medical institution. Health care reforms in Ukraine began much later than in other post-Soviet countries, almost two decades after independence. Transformations in this area, first of all, the acquisition of autonomy by institutions in administrative activities, the ability to raise funds from various sources, etc., necessitate effective management of medical organizations. The international experience of countries with developed health care systems shows that it is expedient to lead organizations and institutions with specialists in the field of management, economics and health care. The inconsistency of the training of specialists with the needs of practical health care and the tasks of structural adjustment of this type of economic activity is the main thing that hinders the effective management of health care organizations, as a result of which the quality of medical care deteriorates. Improving the management of health care organizations in Ukraine will allow you to effectively manage human resources and financial flows, which will result in both economic and social results of the individual, team, organization and the country as a whole.

2021 ◽  
pp. 1-10 ◽  
Author(s):  
Iris Wallenburg ◽  
Jan-Kees Helderman ◽  
Patrick Jeurissen ◽  
Roland Bal

Abstract The Covid-19 pandemic has put policy systems to the test. In this paper, we unmask the institutionalized resilience of the Dutch health care system to pandemic crisis. Building on logics of crisis decision-making and on the notion of ‘tact’, we reveal how the Dutch government initially succeeded in orchestrating collective action through aligning public health purposes and installing socio-economic policies to soften societal impact. However, when the crisis evolved into a more enduring one, a more contested policy arena emerged in which decision-makers had a hard time composing and defending a united decision-making strategy. Measures have become increasingly debated on all policy levels as well as among experts, and conflicts are widely covered in the Dutch media. With the 2021 elections ahead, this means an additional test of the resilience of the Dutch socio-political and health care systems.


1998 ◽  
Vol 3 (1) ◽  
pp. 23-30 ◽  
Author(s):  
Jan Klavus ◽  
Unto Häkkinen

Objectives: In the early 1990s the Finnish economy suffered a severe recession at the same time as health care reforms were taking place. This study examines the effects of these changes on the distribution of contributions to health care financing in relation to household income. Explanations for changes in various indicators of health care expenditure and use during that time are offered. Method: The analysis is based partly on actual income data and partly on simulated data from the base year (1990). It employs methods that allow the estimation of confidence intervals for inequality indices (the Gini coefficient and Kakwani's progressivity index). Results: In spite of the substantial decrease in real incomes during the recession, the distribution of income remained almost unaltered. The share of total health care funding derived from poorer households increased somewhat, due purely to structural changes. The financial plight of the public sector led to the share of total funding from progressive income taxes to decrease, while regressive indirect taxes and direct payments by households contributed more. Conclusions: It seems that, aside from an increased financing burden on poorer households, Finland's health care system has withstood the tremendous changes of the early 1990s fairly well. This is largely attributable to the features of the tax-financed health care system, which apportions the effects of financial and functional disturbances equitably.


2017 ◽  
Vol 53 (2) ◽  
pp. 107-112
Author(s):  
Daniel Ślęzak ◽  
Przemysław Żuratyński ◽  
Klaudiusz Nadolny ◽  
Marlena Robakowska ◽  
Alicja Kalis

Health care systems face challenges related to the technological advances in medicine, demographic changes and limited opportunities for growth funding for health, necessitating greater involvement in the search for more efficient systems. The authors present the functioning of the Polish health care system based on social, historical outline of the healthcare system in Poland and the functioning of the National Health Fund (NFZ). Poland has undergone many reforms of the health care system, the Bismarck model, the model Siemaszko, and finally to a model of universal health insurance. So everyone has the same right to health care services financed by the NFZ or directly from the state budget (eg. The system of state emergency medical services). The National Health Fund allows anyone insured to free healthcare and reimbursement of medicines. Introduced information about information programs.


2002 ◽  
Vol 10 (3) ◽  
pp. 392-400 ◽  
Author(s):  
Rachel Z. Booth

A worldwide shortage of nurses has been acknowledged by the multidisciplinary Global Advisory Group of the World Health Organization. The shortage is caused by an increased demand for nurses, while fewer people are choosing nursing as a profession and the current nurses worldwide are aging. The shortage applies to nurses in practice as well as the nurse faculty who teach students. The inter-country recruitment and migration of nurses from developing countries to developed countries exacerbates the problem. Although public opinion polls identifies the nurse as the person who makes the health care system work for them, the conditions of the work environment in which the nurse functions is unsatisfactory and must change. Numerous studies have shown the positive effects on the nurse of a healthy work environment and the positive relationships between nursing care and patient outcomes. It is important that government officials, insurance companies, and administrators and leaders of health care systems acknowledge and operationalize the value of nurses to the health care system in order to establish and maintain the integrity and viability of that system.


2021 ◽  
Vol 10 (2) ◽  
pp. 1064-1082
Author(s):  
Claudia I. Henschke ◽  
David F. Yankelevitz ◽  
Artit Jirapatnakul ◽  
Rowena Yip ◽  
Vivian Reccoppa ◽  
...  

2020 ◽  
pp. 79-109
Author(s):  
Eric M. Patashnik ◽  
Alan S. Gerber ◽  
Conor M. Dowling

This chapter explores the institutional roots of medical professionalism in the United States. It examines why the U.S. health care system delegates therapeutic authority to individual doctors and medical societies, with little centralized oversight in programs like Medicare. The chapter also presents findings from a national survey of physicians to gauge their views on the proper role of medical societies in medical evidence controversies. Although the tradition of professional autonomy places the physician at the center of the U.S. health care system, the survey evidence suggests that physicians do not recognize the important role their own beliefs (and potential misconceptions) about what constitutes good medical practice play in contributing to the problems of overutilization and inefficiency. The survey also reveals that doctors generally want their medical societies to forcefully defend treatments challenged by research. At the same time, the survey uncovers notable differences among the views of physicians based on both their medical specialization and partisan affiliation. Doctors who identify with the Republican Party place a somewhat higher priority on protecting clinical autonomy (and a somewhat lower priority on discouraging clinical interventions with minor or no benefits) than do doctors who identify with the Democratic Party.


2012 ◽  
Vol 1 (2) ◽  
pp. 41-54 ◽  
Author(s):  
Krzysztof Landa ◽  
Karolina Skóra

Restrictions to health services in Poland have been an inspiration to establish Watch Health Care Foundation (WHC). The fundamental disease of the system is namely the disproportion between the amount of the funds and the contents of the package. It causes everywhere the same ’symptoms’ and leads to the same pathological phenomena: queues and other forms of rationing (’guaranteed’) health benefits, corruption, making use of privileges. Foundation uses the potential of information society and available infrastructure (web portal http://www.watchealthcare.eu) and all activities are presented on the website with the aim of influencing the health care system. On the basis of reports of limited access to health services, a ranking is created at WHC web portal, which aims to show what the biggest gaps in access to health services are - this is the way of showing the patient and health care system needs and also one possible approach of continuous education of the health care services consumers targeted at health care systems improvement.


2004 ◽  
Vol 5 (1) ◽  
pp. 59-70 ◽  
Author(s):  
Stefan Greß ◽  
Ralf Kocher ◽  
Jürgen Wasem

Abstract Recent reforms of the Swiss health care system to introduce regulated competition have raised expectations about the possible combination of more efficient services, while at same time maintaining or even increasing the level of solidarity in health care systems. In this article we examine expected behavioral changes of the market actors, the way incentives for market actors have been changed and analyze the way market actors in fact changed their behavior. We conclude that so far only some of the targets of the reforms have been met. For a reasonable assessment of the Swiss experience in regulating competition in health care it is paramount to distinguish expected effects from actual effects.


2014 ◽  
Vol 10 (3) ◽  
pp. 293-310 ◽  
Author(s):  
Dani Filc ◽  
Nissim Cohen

AbstractBlack medicine represents the most problematic configuration of informal payments for health care. According to the accepted economic explanations, we would not expect to find black medicine in a system with a developed private service. Using Israel as a case study, we suggest an alternative yet a complimentary explanation for the emergence of black medicine in public health care systems – even though citizens do have the formal option to use private channels. We claim that when regulation is weak and political culture is based on ‘do it yourself’ strategies, which meant to solve immediate problems, blurring the boundaries between public and private health care services may only reduce public trust and in turn, contribute to the emergence of black medicine. We used a combined quantitative and qualitative methodology to support our claim. Statistical analysis of the results suggested that the only variable significantly associated with the use of black medicine was trust in the health care system. The higher the respondents’ level of trust in the health care system, the lower the rate of the use of black medicine. Qualitatively, interviewee emphasized the relation between the blurred boundaries between public and private health care and the use of black medicine.


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