Fonaryuk O.Yu., Bondar P.P. Transition to a new form of relationship between the state and the person in the process of implementing the medical reform.

Abstract

In the article shows the need to transform rela- tions between the state and the individual for the full functioning of european-style medicine. At the same time, a person is aware of himself as an active participant in these relations. It is emphasized that these processes are natural consequences of so- cial development. This topic needs further scientific study for completely prosaic reasons. Because we do not set ourselves the goal of forming a negative image of the functioning of the soviet medical sys- tem in any way. On the contrary, such a system was very successful and gave good social results for its time, because any social phenomenon is a product of its epoch. Now we are only pointing out the scale of social transformations that soci- ety is already beginning to face. Undoubtedly, the medical field in Ukraine will undergo unprecedented transformations in the near future. These changes will be incompatible with old ideas about the role and place of a person in social life. However, they are fully compatible with Ukraine’s euro-atlantic aspirations. The main reasons for public distrust of the objec- tive necessity of introducing grandiose innovations in the medical field are also shown. The possibility of overcoming this mistrust lies in certain changes in the social activity of individual members of society.Openness and transparency – which in practice mean full awareness of the public about the activities of the medical field and the opportunity to actively influence its functioning – should contribute to the emergence of trust in the state apparatus on the path of reform.Both participants in the “state-person” relationship are active and, at the same time, responsible to each other. A person ceases to be «dependent» on the state in the soviet sense of the word. This circum- stance can ultimately lead us to one more useful con- sequence, namely, to a new qualitative understand- ing of the state. At least in the medical field, with a positive experience of reform, society will stop per- ceiving the state only as a certain administrative ap- paratus. If earlier the role of the state was to “force” and “give”, now it is to “develop” and “facilitate”.