Abstract:
The main purpose of the paper is to analyse the methodological framework for state regulation and public
administration of the health care sector in the post-Soviet countries (the case of Ukraine). Methodology. This study
combines economic, legal, and managerial analysis of Ukrainian healthcare system. In this study, a complex of the
general scientific and special research methods was used to achieve the goal of the study. The method of historical
and logical analysis of the literature was used. The functional and structural analysis was used with the purpose to
research the state regulation of public relations in health care. Methods of comparative and statistical analysis and
their synthesis were used to study the dynamics of development of legal basis in the health care sector. Method
of summarization was used to make conclusions and recommendations for optimizing state regulation policy in
Ukrainian health care. Scientific works of national and foreign scientists in the sphere of state regulation of health
care sphere, national and international legal documents were used as the informational basis for the conducted
research. Findings. In the paper, international basis for the formation of the Ukrainian state regulation mechanism is
defined. The conceptual basis of state regulation mechanism is analysed. The difference between state regulation
and public administration in healthcare is determined. Components of the healthcare market are allocated in order
to analyse certain methods of their regulation. Main direct and indirect administrative and economic methods of
state regulation in different medical markets are analysed. The framework for medical reformation is determined.
Practical implications. The results of this study form the theoretical and methodological basis for practical
improvement of the state regulation system of public relations in Ukrainian health care.
