[Folk and nontraditional medicine in the health care system in the world].

The data about contribution of folk and nontraditional medicine technologies into the system of medical aid rendering of countries of all regions of the world are presented in the article.

[Physical substantiation of bioenergoinformation processes].

Contemporary conceptions about possible physical nature of bioenergoinformation processes are presented in the article.

[Efficiency of homoeopathic method of therapy in ambulatory practice].

The authors presented in the article the results of the use of homoeopathic method in Medical center of Ukrainian association of folk medicine for last 5 years. The analysis on efficiency of homoeopathic treatment according ICD-10 classification patients with different diseases was carried out.

[Scientific potential of the higher educational institutions of the Ministry of Health of Ukraine]. / Naukovyi potentsial vyshchykh navchal'nykh zakladiv MOZ Ukraïny.

The state of the organization of scientific research activities carried on by higher educational institutions within a frame of the Ministry of Public Health of Ukraine has been analyzed. Data about their scientific potential and the role in the preparation of highest qualification scientific personnel, etc. are presented. Recommendations have been given on further improvement of the organization and an increase of efficiency of research works in the higher medical and postgraduate educational institutions.

[Issues in the efficient use of advances in the field of medical science in the practice of public health]. / Problemi pidvyshchennia efektyvnosti vykorystannia dosiahnen' haluzevoï medychnoï nauky v praktytsi okhorony zdorov'ia.

An analysis of the present-day status of the innovation system in public health services is submitted together with prospects of its development. Results are presented of the sociological investigation designed to study efficiency of use of innovations in health system.

[Patent research as a way to ensure competitiveness of an object of economic activities]. / Patentni doslidzhennia--odyn iz zasobiv zabezpechennia konkurentospromozhnosti ob'iekta hospodars'koï diial'nosti.

Importance is shown of patent-associated studies at every stage of the life cycle of an object of economic activities. It is argued that a low level of patent-associated studies, failure to meet the deadline set for the completion thereof are responsible for an inadequate level of research activities, waste of time and resource, creation of worthless objects of intellectual property. Special stress is laid on the importance of implicit fulfillment of requirements of the state standards now in force in the sphere of intellectual property.

[International scientific cooperation of research institutions with higher medical educational institutions under Ministry of Health of Ukraine in 2001]. / Mizhnarodne naukove spivrobitnytstvo naukovo-doslidnykh ustanov ta vyshchykh medychnykh navchal'nykh zakladiv, pidporiadkovanykh ministerstvu okhorony zdorov'ia Ukraïny, u 2001 rotsi.

An analysis was performed of international scientific cooperation of research establishments with higher medical educational institutions under Ministry of Health of Ukraine in 2001. Prospects opened up to its development are discussed.

[Role of health personnel in reformation of the service of medical and social experts]. / Rol' haluzevoï nauky u reformuvanni sluzhby medyko-sotsial'noï ekspertyzy.

The article analyzes the present-day status of medical-and-social expert performance service delivery, those contingents of invalids on their care, with ways outlined for the service formation. Shown in the article is the role of sectorial science in the working out of theoretical and scientific-and-applied problems of reformation of the service organization, in carrying out medical-and-social expert evaluation and rehabilitation of invalids, validation of the legal and standard basis of the service reformation and optimization of management thereof.

[Current problems of social psychiatry in Ukraine]. / Aktual'ni problemy sotsial'noï psikhiatriï v Ukraïni.

Statistical data on mental diseases in Ukraine are presented, main trends of development of social psychiatry are outlined, ways for reformation of the social-and-psychiatric service are submitted.

[The results of the scientific activities of the organizations under the Ministry of Public Health of Ukraine in 1998]. / Rezul'taty naukovoï diial'nosti ustanov, pidporiadkovanykh Ministerstvu okhorony zdorov'ia Ukraïny, u 1998 rotsi.

Data are submitted on the scientific potential of the system of the Ministry of Health of Ukraine, its constituent parts, some features of financing and volume of scientific research work done in 1998. Results are presented of scientific investigations in basic fields of medicine and priority lines of activity of medical science. The importance of introduction of scientific developments into the health care practice is emphasized. Prerequisites for further development of sectorial medical science under present-day social and economic conditions are analyzed.

[The status and outlook for research in the system of the sociomedical expertise and rehabilitation of the disabled in Ukraine]. / Stan ta perspektyvy naukovykh doslidzhen' u systemi medyko-sotsial'noï ekspertyzy ta reabilitatsiï invalidiv v Ukraïni.

Modern and worth-while trends of scientific research in the system of expert medical and social evaluation and rehabilitation of invalids are connected with problems of invalidism of the population of Ukraine, formation of state social policy in respect to invalids, requirements in the field of the expert medical care delivery during the period of the public health services reformation. Theoretical and scientific investigations in the fields of applied sciences, designed to study problems of invalidism, of medicosocial expertise and rehabilitation of the disabled, are aimed at: ascertaining reasons and factors causing invalidism of the population, designing measures for its prevention and reduction; providing a scientific substantiation of criteria of expert medical-and-social evaluation, individualized programmes and systems of medical-and-social rehabilitation in different illnesses incapacitating people from working, causing them to have a disability; identifying the rehabilitative potential of invalids and ways for delivering expert social services to and rehabilitation of invalids.

[The status and developmental outlook of the priority scientific trend in environmental protection]. / Stan ta perspektyvi rozvytku priorytetnoho naukovoho napriamu "Okhorona navkolyshn'oho seredovyshcha".

Scientific researches carried out in the area of environmental sanitation are closely related to the principal lines of activity in industry and farming of Ukraine. The main task of research work is establishing principles, criteria and methods of comprehensive assessment of injury to health secondary to environmental contamination. With the purpose of identification of the real physical and chemical environmental factors load that human body experiences, an inventory has been made at the Ukrainian Scientific Research Centre for Hygiene of carcinogen sources, with the concept having been worked out of creation of the integrated system for control of safe NPS operation, and a concept proposed of genetic monitoring, and of state genetic load surveillance service in different regions of Ukraine, taking account of the degree of environmental pollution.

[The results of the scientific activities of the institutions under the jurisdiction of the Ministry of Public Health]. / Rezul'taty naukovoï diial'nosti pidporiadkovnykh Ministerstvu okhorony zdorov'ia ustanov.

Factographic data are submitted on research potential of the system of health services of Ukraine. An analysis has been performed of the structure of such a potential together with features of its constituents. Attention is drawn to solution of scientific tasks related to basic research problems, the medical science priorities in particular. The analysis of the scientific investigations conducted is accompanied by a demonstration of most weighty results such as those related to working out of health protection-oriented decisions, recommendations on innovative technologies to master new ways for administering treatments and prophylaxis of diseases as well as to theoretical scientific achievements, etc. Weak spots in the organization and conduction of scientific quests in the branch are analyzed, an attempt is made to argue for the causes of this phenomenon. Particular attention is given to deficits in financing of medical science and to low effectiveness of search for extra-budget resources. The authors form ways toward improving the state of medical science in the system of public health services.