HEALTH SYSTEMS MANAGEMENT AND FINANCIAL SUSTAINABILITY IN GEORGIA

Manana Maridashvili; Davit Meparishvili; Ekaterine Sanikidze

doi:10.31435/rsglobal_ijitss/30092021/7644

Manana Maridashvili PhD in Business administration, Professor, Georgian National University, Tbilisi, Georgia https://orcid.org/0000-0002-2798-9643
Davit Meparishvili PhD in Business administration, Invited Professor, Ilia State University, Tbilisi, Georgia https://orcid.org/0000-0001-7454-2521
Ekaterine Sanikidze Doctoral student of Business administration, Georgian Technical University. Tbilisi, Georgia https://orcid.org/0000-0003-0466-1845

DOI: https://doi.org/10.31435/rsglobal_ijitss/30092021/7644

Keywords: health care system, primary health care, universal health care, financial sustainability, reforms, world health organization

Abstract

The article discusses and evaluates Health systems management and financial sustainability in Georgian Health Institutions, also provides the analyses of the state of health care in the conditions of Georgia. Improving and further developing the primary health care system is crucial to controlling the financial sustainability and growth costs of the health care system, including increasing funding and access to funding, and strengthening the role of the planned outpatient sector - family physician, As well as effective management of patients with chronic diseases. Activating the role of the physician, thus enabling the early detection of various diseases, as well as the effective management of patients with chronic diseases. At the same time, we consider a significant increase in funding for medicines, which will reduce the aggravation of a number of diseases at the level of inpatient treatment, thus saving considerable financial resources in the universal program, which is spent in the inpatient sector, and also improves public health.

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