BUDGET EXPENDITURE ON HEALTH FINANCING AND THEIR OPTIMIZATION

Abstract

The article considers the expenditures of the budget of Ukraine and their  place in health care. Healthcare is a component of social services that plays a key role in ensuring the well-being of the population, as well-being with health is the main determinant of quality of life. Reasonable and adequate investment in public health is due not only to the need to meet social needs; they return significant economic dividends in the form of growth in national income. Therefore, investment in health care should be seen as a contribution to the development of the national economy and improving social welfare. The growth of health care financing based on the increase in total expenditures on the social sphere over the last decades has become a noticeable feature of the dynamics of economic processes in developed countries, which is due to such circumstances. Weaknesses in the existing health care system, drastic changes in the socio-economic sphere, unsatisfactory environmental situation, critical demographic situation and unsatisfactory state of health, and finally the global epidemic COVID-19.  ll this requires an urgent solution to current problems in the industry,improving the organization and improving its activities. Unlike all other sectors, health care in Ukraine is almost entirely dependent on state budget funding. The development and attraction of other sources of funding is constrained by the lack of interest of the private sector and the somewhatnegative attitude of public health authorities to entrepreneurship in health care in general. Therefore, in the area of health care financing, the primary problem is the lack of public funds, which leads to a reduction in the amount of free medical care. The main problems are identified and ways to optimize health care financing are suggested.