Prospects for the implementation of state support for cancer patients as a component of healthcare development in Ukraine

Abstract

Oncological pathology causes significant changes in the physical and mental condition of patients. It leads to partial or complete disability due to chronic progressive course in every 6th patient (79 per 100 thousand populations). Mortality in oncology is 51.3 %; does not live a year after diagnosis 31.4 %; mortality is 188.4 per 100 thousand population. Due to the fact that 40 % of patients among men and 26.6 % among women - people of working age, a strong stratum of the population is formed, which is excluded from active social life . At the same time, in most cases it is extremely difficult for cancer patients and their relatives to pay for treatment on their own, and therefore the urgency of improving the methods of state support for such persons is growing. Depending on the specific situation, public administration bodies use (simultaneously) administrative, economic, legal, socio-motivational management methods. Each of these methods is characterized by a corresponding list of means of state influence.