Criteria of economic effectiveness of preventive measures of chronic non-infectious diseases

Abstract

Introduction: Today, Ukraine is among the five largest European countries in terms of population, ranking fifth after Germany, Great Britain, France and Italy. Over the past decades, the number of people in Ukraine has been decreasing, mainly due to the excess of deaths over births. The high mortality rate in Ukraine is burdened by the fact that it concerns people of working age - the standardized mortality rate of the working-age population is 2.4 times higher than that of the EU countries and 1.5 times the average in Europe. The aim of this article was to determine the rationale for the economic effectiveness of the prevention of chronic non-communicable diseases and criteria for calculating the economic forecast. Materials and methods: The research was conducted with the help of theoretical and statistical methods, by studying scientific sources and systematic analysis and generalization of the experience of finding economic efficiency of preventive measures of chronic diseases. Review and conclusions: The analysis of the considered methods of economic evaluation of the prevention and treatment of chronic non-infectious diseases made it possible to draw the following conclusions that the effectiveness of the health care system and individual health care facilities should be considered in a complex manner from the point of view of medical, social and economic efficiency. Economic efficiency, as a rule, is the result of medical and social efficiency. When calculating the cost-effectiveness of treatment and prevention measures, the whole complex of losses and costs associated with illnesses should be taken into account, in particular: direct costs directly related to prevention and treatment; Indirect losses associated with the illness, due to the unprocessed part of the gross domestic product, paid by sick leave. The task of the economic substantiation of medical and preventive measures is to calculate the necessary volume of material and technical and financial resources, as well as their effective use.