DENTAL HEALTH OF THE POPULATION AND PRIORITY DIRECTIONS OF ITS IMPROVEMENT

The aim. To analyze the main indicators of dental care to the population, the system of financial support for dental care in Ukraine and to study modern WHO initiatives to improve dental care for the population, increase its availability and quality. Methods – system approach and system analysis, bibliosemantic, content analysis. Results. Over the past decades, the country has revealed a significant deterioration in the dental status of the population due to the unsatisfactory state of preventive activities, changes in the financing of the dental industry. Taking into account the current WHO initiatives to protect oral health, it is promising to improve the existing forms of interdisciplinary cooperation of doctors of various practices to prevent the development of dental diseases, improve interdisciplinary education in the prevention of the most common diseases of the oral cavity of doctors of various specialties. Formation of motivation among the population to preserve dental health and provide it with preventive services, introduction of new forms of financing of the dental industry, in particular, at the expense of social insurance, the introduction of public-private partnership, increasing the state's responsibility for dental care to socially vulnerable segments of the population will help reduce the financial burden for the patient when receiving dental services in the conditions of modern realities in the system of financing dental care.