Rozhko O. Organizational Provision of Ophthalmologic Treatment in the Territorial Communities of Ukraine

The purpose of the research is a theoretical-methodical study of the organizational provision of ophthalmological assistance in Ukrainian territorial communities and development of suggestions on its practical application in the activity of self-government institutions. The object of the study is the activity of self-government institutions in the healthcare sector of a territorial community. The subject of the study is the organizational provision of ophthalmological assistance in Ukrainian territorial communities. The present thesis studies the organizational provision of ophthalmological assistance in Ukrainian territorial communities and offers suggestions on its practical application in the activity of self-government institutions. The paper looks at the evolution of research in the field of providing specialized medical assistance, gives a complex analysis of scientific approaches to the problems of providing ophthalmological assistance in territorial communities as a part of providing specialized kinds of medical services. It also researches the special features of development of the national system of managing provision of ophthalmological assistance in territorial communities; evaluates organizational and legal mechanisms of providing specialized medical services in Ukrainian territorial communities; defines the special features of providing private ophthalmological assistance in the system of specialized medical services on the local level; summarizes foreign expertise of organizing ophthalmological services for the population on the local level; offers the author’s formulation of the concept “regional ophthalmological service”. The paper fully looks at a possibility of applying the principles of social partnership in organizing specialized medical services for territorial communities; offers an integrated model of organizational supply for providing ophthalmological services for the population on the local level; explains the ways of improving the system of managing the ophthalmological service with the purpose of meeting the communities’ needs.