RESUSCITATION REFORMS IN UKRAINE: LOGICAL STRUCTURE OF THE PROGRAM ON REDUCTION OF THREATS TO THE NATION’S HEALTH

Abstract

The article describes an innovative tool for reducing the threat to the nation’s health, which the authors propose to apply working with youth in formal and non-formal education. The purpose of the article is to study and determine the logical structure of the program on reduction of threats to the health of the Ukrainian nation in the period of active resuscitation reforms in Ukraine aiming to help teachers of higher education institutions of different levels of accreditation to prepare detailed work plans for the implementation of state policy on public health. Based on the Morra Imas L.G. and Rist R.С. understanding of the Theory of Change, the internal logic of the program on reduction of threats to the nation’s health is described as a plan of structural elements, which is needed to achieve the long-term goals of the social changes initiative for the health-consciousness of the Ukrainian nation. At the pilot stage, respondents were students of higher education institutions of 2nd and 4th level of accreditation, namely: students of the Oles Honchar Dnipro National University, the University of Customs and Finance and the Public High Education Institution ‘Dnipro Pedagogical College’ of the Dnipropetrovsk Regional Council. As a result of the study, the authors found and substantiated that the logical structure of the program on reduction of threats to the health of the Ukrainian nation must consist of the following components: program components (purpose, tasks, short-term results / products, activities / processes); performance indicators in aspects: resources, budget, technology, personnel; revision (monitoring and evaluation measures); assumption.

Keywords

• logframe
• program on reduction of threats to the nation’s health
• reform
• public health