Health management in Ukraine during the New Economic Policy of 1922–1928

The study of the health care system in Ukraine during the New Economic Policy (1922-1928) was conducted. The systematic analysis of public policies, legislation, funding and the health management system was carried out. It has been established that the political decisions taken initiated the establishment of a multi-complex health system with absolute dominance of State ownership. According to the form of the financial model, it can be recognized as state social insurance medicine. This gives reason to recognize it as a health care system that corresponds to the principles of state capitalism. Special management institutes were created to manage the high-tech scientific field: Scientific institutions and Clinical institutes for the improvement of doctors of NKOZ. They provided the scientific justification for the preparation and implementation of management decisions of NPOZs, projects of state programs on health care. The studied system of Working Medicine, which consisted of: an interdepartmental management structure with a scientific and methodical basis, which was launched in the form of the Scientific Institute of Working Medicine, a financial model — insurance fund of Working Medicine and a network of medical institutions. It was determined that this model is able to become an example of the implementation of economic levers of management of the health care system.