THE CONCEPT OF PUBLIC-PRIVATE PARTNERSHIP IN HEALTHCARE IN UKRAINE: HARMONIZATION WITH APPROACHES OF INTERNATIONAL ORGANIZATIONS
DOI:
https://doi.org/10.51547/ppp.dp.ua/2024.5.2Keywords:
public governance, public policy, public-private partnership, healthcare, international organizations, harmonization of approaches in governanceAbstract
The article examines the current problem of Ukraine in facilitating access to and improving the quality of medical services through the implementation and development of public-private partnerships in the healthcare sector, which is important both in the context of reforming public governance of the healthcare sector and in the context of business management to achieve sustainable development goals. An analysis of the World Health Organization’s recommendations on developing publicprivate partnerships in the healthcare sector in Ukraine led to the conclusion that international organizations are willing to act as guarantors and investors in healthcare partnership projects. Still, it is necessary to harmonize the conceptual platform for understanding public-private partnerships between potential partnership participants in Ukraine and international organizations. Therefore, the purpose of the article is to compare the concepts of public-private partnerships in the practice of international organizations and the regulatory and legal field of Ukraine, to identify their common and distinctive features, and to harmonize the concept of public-private partnerships in the healthcare sector in Ukraine with the concepts of public-private partnerships of international organizations. Based on the study of the scientific field formed around public-private partnership in foreign theory and practice, the feasibility of grouping scientific views on the definition of the concept of public-private partnership into seven approaches was argued. They are as follows: legal, economic, social, operational, regulatory, functional, transformational. A comparison of the concepts of public-private partnership, which are used in practice by international organizations, with the concepts defined by the Law of Ukraine and the methodology of the Ministry of Health of Ukraine, showed that the specific concept of public-private partnership in the healthcare sector, both in international organizations and in Ukraine, is not used, there are characteristics of the general concept of public-private partnership, according to which there are coincidences and differences in interpretations. It was established that in the practice of international organizations in the understanding of public-private partnership, operational and economic approaches prevail, and in Ukraine – legal and economic approaches are dominant. On this basis, a refined concept of public-private partnership in the healthcare sector in Ukraine was proposed, harmonized with the concept of public-private partnership of international organizations.
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