[CONTROL AND SUPERVISION AS MEANS FOR PREVENTING AND DETECTING OFFENSES IN THE HEALTH CARE SECTOR IN UKRAINE].

The purpose of the article is to reveal the essence and specific features of control and supervisory activities as means for preventing and detecting offenses in the health care sector on the basis of existing theoretical concepts and approaches. The research materials were political and legal opinion journalism, works of national scholars, analytical materials, reference publications, Internet resources and Ukrainian legislation regulating control and supervisory activities in the health care sector. The methodological basis of the article was formed by a set of general scientific (dialectical, etc.) and special (system and structural, structural and logical analysis, synthesis, etc.) methods of scientific cognition. It has been concluded that the main ways of ensuring the rule of law in the health care sector are control and supervision, which are distinguished in a number of characteristics, in particular, the subjects and the results of implementing both types of activities. State control in the health care sector carried out by state authorities (Ministry of Health, State Medical Service, National Health Service of Ukraine), and public supervision carried out by the representatives of the public in the health care sector (supervisory boards at health care institutions, the Council of Public Control under the National Health Service of Ukraine, etc.) have been characterized. The objects of state control and objects of public supervision in the health care sector in Ukraine have been specified and analyzed.

[PREVENTION OF CORRUPTION OFFENCES IN THE HEALTHСARE: THE EXPERIENCE OF UKRAINE AND GEORGIA].

The aim of the article is a comparative and legal study of corruption and measures to combat corruption in health care in Ukraine, using the experience of Georgia and the European Union. The materials of the research are the legislation of the European Union, Georgia, Ukraine, statistical information. The authors of the research have used the systematization method, comparative and legal method, analysis and generalization of statistical data. Corruption and corruption offences in the health system may lead to unpredictable consequences impacting accessibility, equity and health outcomes. Fighting against corruption in the health sector consists of the identification of specific forms of corruption and the implementation of effective anti-corruption measures, which must be designed to fit the context of a country's health system. A study of the experience of Georgia and the EU countries shows that, changes in the organization and management of the health system, financing of health care, provision of health services, increase access to medical services, reducing inequalities, financial risks reduction regarding expenditures on medical services, changing public opinion of the perception of corruption, transparency and accountability in the funding of medicine, the anti-corruption examination of legislative acts regulating the activity of healthcare in Ukraine, the formation of anti-corruption behaviour in society, active cooperation with civil society institutions are therefore of primary importance for Ukraine during the period of medical reform. Elimination of the reasons and conditions promoting the commission of corruption offences in the health system and the introduction of an effective anti-corruption strategy based on good governance, transparency and zero tolerance are among the priority areas for improving the current legislation of Ukraine in fighting against corruption in the field of healthcare.