METHODS OF REHABILITATION OF MILITARY PERSONNEL, STATUS OF FUNCTIONING AND DEVELOPMENT OF IMPLEMENTATION CENTERS AS ONE OF THE DIRECTIONS OF ACTIVITY OF LOCAL GOVERNMENT BODIES

Abstract

The purpose of the article. The purpose of the article within the scope of the research task was to determine the system of rehabilitation methods that can be applied to military personnel, to single out among them the most effective and effective ones, and to determine the ways of their implementation. Research materials and methods. The methodological basis of the research is the dialectical method, the application of which made it possible to comprehensively reveal the nature of the “system of rehabilitation techniques that can be applied to military personnel” as an organizational, medical-prophylactic, social and psychological form of ensuring the preservation of life and health of defenders of Ukraine. The system-structural method was used to analyze regulatory documents regarding the organization of rehabilitation activities with military personnel. The method of conceptual and comparative analysis is used to identify modern effective foreign practices of rehabilitation activities with the personnel of the armed forces of different countries during hostilities. Research results. The system of rehabilitation methods that can be applied to military personnel is defined, the most effective and effective ones are singled out among them; the analysis of international practices of implementing rehabilitation methods for military personnel was carried out, and the ways of their implementation in Ukraine were determined; the practice of development of rehabilitation centers as one of the areas of activity of local self-government bodies was investigated. Conclusions. It has been established that for the effective functioning of the system of rehabilitation of military personnel in Ukraine, it is advisable to take a number of measures: first, it is necessary to develop programs for the comprehensive rehabilitation of military personnel, for the development of which a team of specialists should be involved (rehabilitators, psychologists, teachers, who must act comprehensively with mutual agreement); secondly, it is necessary to normatively regulate the principles of the rehabilitation team’s work, its powers, place and functions in the rehabilitation system as one of the key subjects of the rehabilitation system; when developing patient rehabilitation plans from the stage of providing emergency medical care to the outpatient-policlinic and sanatorium-resort stages, it is advisable to take into account international standards (protocols) of rehabilitation; thirdly, it is expedient to regulate the organizational and legal principles of implementation of methods of rehabilitation of military personnel in the State program of rehabilitation of military personnel; fourthly, it is necessary to repurpose a number of health care institutions into rehabilitation centers, or to create full-fledged rehabilitation departments in city (district) educational institutions; fifthly, to increase the level of prestige of the profession of a specialist in the field of rehabilitation and to expand state orders in higher education institutions for the training of such specialists.