MENTAL HEALTH PROBLEMS IN THE MODERN PUBLIC HEALTH SYSTEM OF UKRAINE

Authors

  • N. S. Polka O. M. Marzeev Institute of Public Health of the National Academy of Medical Sciences of Ukraine, Kyiv, Ukraine
  • I. M. Khomenko Shupyk National Medical University of Ukraine, Kyiv, Ukraine
  • O. P. Ivakhno Shupyk National Medical University of Ukraine, Kyiv, Ukraine
  • S. I. Harkavyi Bogomolets National Medical University, Kyiv, Ukraine
  • O. O. Belov National Pirogov Memorial Medical University, Vinnytsya, Ukraine

DOI:

https://doi.org/10.11603/1681-2786.2023.4.14427

Keywords:

public (mental/mental) health, reform of the mental health care system, wartime, sanitary and urban planning legislation

Abstract

Purpose: to conduct a hygienic substantiation of the problem of mental (or mental) health of the population of Ukraine and identify ways to overcome it.

Materials and Methods. The method of theoretical comparative analysis of Ukrainian data on the modern system of public health (mental or mental) in the modern world was used.

Results. The article provides a hygienic substantiation of the problem of (mental or mental) health of the population of Ukraine and ways to overcome it. The method of theoretical comparative analysis of Ukraineʼs data on the modern system of public health (mental or mental) in the modern world was used. In order to implement the plans for the implementation of the Concept by 2030, the secondary and tertiary health care system has been reformed in recent years, with the reduction and/or closure of psychiatric institutions accounting for 25 % of facilities providing mental health services, the number of beds reduced by 63.8 %. According to the results of many scientists in the country, the disorders of mental/psychological health: a feeling of stress, severe nervousness 71 % of respondents have noted recently, which is associated with a long-term full-scale war (72 %), financial difficulties (44 %), deterioration of their own health (25 %), unemployment (25 %), showed that it is necessary to create preventive measures at all levels of medical care: primary, secondary, tertiary, “getting closer to the patientˮ, “the patient is always in the centerˮ and more patient-friendly as it is done in countries around the world.

Conclusion. To create sanitary and hygienic conditions at the primary health care level, and at the secondary and tertiary levels – to build new clinical structural units of general health care institutions (psychiatric departments), where psychosocial support services for mental/mental health are provided, taking into account rehabilitation, resocialization, and occupational therapy.

Author Biographies

N. S. Polka, O. M. Marzeev Institute of Public Health of the National Academy of Medical Sciences of Ukraine, Kyiv, Ukraine

Director State Institution «O.M. Marzeev Institute of Public Health of the National Academy of Medical Sciences of Ukraine», Professor,Сorresponding Member of the National Academy of Medical Sciences of Ukraine

I. M. Khomenko, Shupyk National Medical University of Ukraine, Kyiv, Ukraine

DM (Medicine), Professor, Head of the Department of Public Health, Epidemiology and Ecology, Shupyk National Medical University of Ukraine

O. P. Ivakhno, Shupyk National Medical University of Ukraine, Kyiv, Ukraine

DM (Medicine), Professor, Professor of the Department of Public Health, Epidemiology and Ecology, Shupyk National Medical University of Ukraine

S. I. Harkavyi, Bogomolets National Medical University, Kyiv, Ukraine

MD, PhD, Professor, Head of the Department of Municipal Hygiene and Human Ecology with a course in Age-related Hygiene, Bogomolets National Medical University

O. O. Belov, National Pirogov Memorial Medical University, Vinnytsya, Ukraine

DM (Medicine), Associate professor of the Department of Medical Psychology and Psychiatry, National Pirogov Memorial Medical University

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Published

2024-02-13

How to Cite

Polka, N. S., Khomenko, I. M., Ivakhno, O. P., Harkavyi, S. I., & Belov, O. O. (2024). MENTAL HEALTH PROBLEMS IN THE MODERN PUBLIC HEALTH SYSTEM OF UKRAINE. Bulletin of Social Hygiene and Health Protection Organization of Ukraine, (4), 52–59. https://doi.org/10.11603/1681-2786.2023.4.14427

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Section

Organization of medical care