Strategic Health Care Management: Challenges and Realities of Emergencies

Abstract

The article is devoted to strategic management system improvement in the sphere of health care in conditions of emergencies by the example of Ukraine. Pandemic conditions and military actions substantiate the relevance of the research. The study aims to improve the system of health care system’s strategic management in emergencies. The research’s novelty is proposing a new model of interaction between emergency response bodies. An analysis of foreign experience, scientific literature, and normative regulation was carried out to find problem solutions. Methods of analysis, synthesis, induction, and deduction allow to find weaknesses of strategic management and offer ways of liquidation. The study results show the current state of strategic management in healthcare by systematizing the strengths, weaknesses, opportunities, and threats and conducting a SWOT analysis. As a result, weaknesses of the system are identified, and directions for their elimination are proposed. For this purpose, it is necessary to change the work of the Cabinet of Ministers and Health Service with the Emergency Services. The practical value of the research consists in the possibility of application of its results in forming new, more effective strategic aims of public health system development in the case of military operations