STATE REGULATION OF HEALTH EDUCATION: PRESENT, PROBLEMS AND SOLUTIONS

Abstract

The purpose of the article is to clarify the main trends in the development of medical education in Ukraine in the context of global challenges; to identify and systematize the problems hindering the development of domestic education, their causes and consequences. To determine the place and role of medical education in the economy of Ukraine. The basis of the conducted research is an abstractly logical method in close combination with the methods aimed at obtaining information for further analysis. Medical education, since the beginning of the reforms introduced in the state, has undergone significant changes, but without solving the legal issues further development is impossible. The problems hampering further development of medical education have been clarified and systematised (non-prevalence of officially registered private practice of nursing, lack of motivational leverage, professional secondary education, educational content not meeting the requirements of the workplace, outdated system of professional development). It is determined that promotion is not the main motivational lever (increasing salaries has not yielded positive results, there is still an outflow of staff from the profession). The necessity of development of "Strategic development of medical education" and improvement of legal levers of state regulation in this sphere is proved. The place of medical education in the system of economy of Ukraine as one of the key, namely that competitive workers can improve medical services and guarantee the availability of these services. "A healthy nation" is a guarantee of a healthy workforce, which is capable of achieving Ukraine's sustainability development goals and fulfilling its obligations to the world community. It has been substantiated and proven that quality education is a guarantee of national security of the state and a guarantee of  sustainability economic development