Meged V. Management of the system of medical care at the State boundary service of Ukraine: features and tendencies of development.

The object of the thesis is the system of the medical provision of the State Frontier Guards of Ukraine. The objective of the thesis is to find out and to justify scientifically the peculiarities and the main tendencies of the State Frontier Guards of Ukraine medical provision system taking into account its functioning in the market economy conditions. Different methods have been used in the research: historical, structural, functional analysis, chronological, diachronic. The novelty is that scientific analysis of the state policy has been done for the first time as well as the analysis of the State Frontier Guards of Ukraine medical provision system development in 1991-2003; the evolution of the State Frontier Guards of Ukraine medical provision system has been investigated with the definition of the modern state situation and the perspectives of its further development. The results are the following: main periods of the State Frontier Guards of Ukraine medical provision system development have been specified and new periodicity system has been offered. The trends of the State Frontier Guards of Ukraine medical provision system development (democratisation and structural order) as well as the principles (undivided authority, joint leadership and decentralisation of the functions) have found their further development and have been scientifically justified.