The article outlines the theoretical principles of reforming of the health care system in Ukraine in the conditions of decentralization, explores the peculiarities and directions of implementation of health care reforms, identifies the problems of organization of the system of medical care in Ukraine and the possible ways of improving the medical care of the population in the context of decentralization reform.
The essence of the notion of a hospital district as a functional association of health facilities located on the relevant territory, which provides provision of secondary (specialized) medical care to the population of this territory, is considered and outlined. The criteria of the formation of hospital districts are defined, the features of establishing boundaries and the composition of the district as well as the technical process of its creation are highlighted.
The essence and principles of the functioning of the Hospital Council, its main tasks and functions are determined. The sources of funding the activities approved in the Hospital District Development Plan for the next five years are determined. The development of the plan for the development of the hospital district in order to determine the actual loading of medical infrastructure objects and the distribution of relevant functions is emphasized, among which, in particular, the directing of flows to the medical institution with the corresponding level of technical and personnel support.
In order to avoid numerous questions about the decentralization reform in the field of health care of the population in Ukraine, it is also necessary to conduct a large-scale information campaign among the regions in terms of clarifying the areas of responsibility of the central and regional authorities in relation to the principles of the functioning of the established hospital districts, as well as to reduce the political and social tension. 

decentralization, reform of health care system, medical infrastructure, hospital district 

In a worsening political and economic conflict with Russia and geopolitical changes on a global scale poses some new challenges and tasks associated with maintaining relations with its main strategic partners and at the same time promoting and strengthening positions of our state on international arena. In this context, particular importance is the structural definition of the priorities of foreign economic activity of the regions of Ukraine in the light of geopolitical configurations that currently are formed brightly in the global economic space and which, in turn, will play a key role in developing the international policies of the new time.
The economic and political situation in Ukraine at the present time, revolutionary and military events of recent years, caused dynamic changes in the overall structure of the state economy, and in particular in the sphere of foreign economic activity of regions. Thus, the share of export in GDP of Ukraine is more than 50%, therefore, how pattern develops foreign economic activity of regions depends on the fate of the state’s economy in general.
The aim of the article is evaluation of structural features of the modern condition of foreign economic activity of regions of Ukraine in conditions of Russian aggression and the identification of trends in the development of their foreign economic relations.
In the article the author are analyzed the features of development of foreign economic activity of the regions in Ukraine for the period 2013-2015 and impacted the evaluation of the military aggression of Russia on the development of their foreign trade. During the study period it is revealed that the export potential of regions of Ukraine losing its position, which, in turn, directly leads to a fall in its GDP. At the same time, there are bright changes in the spatial structure of export of Ukraine, namely the reorientation of the export vector of its regions and the change of markets with the usual new. The statistics today reflect the new reality of foreign trade, which is formed in the regions of Ukraine. There have been changes in the areas of foreign trade policy of regions of Ukraine, namely from the countries-members of the CIS to the EU and other countries of the world. In foreign trade turnover of regions of Ukraine, the share of the countries-EU members has increased in 2015 from 26% to 31,8%.
On the background of the general decline of Ukrainian exports, it is revealed that notable falling for 2013-2015 were also imports. Drop import of most goods and services was observed as from Russia from the countries-EU members. The imports of goods decreased exclusively in all regions of Ukraine, and the fall ranged from 1,3% in Poltava to 47,7 % in Donetsk regions.
The factors that influenced the decline of foreign economic activity in all regions of Ukraine are researched and analyzed. Due to changes in structural proportions in foreign trade of the regions of Ukraine defined the main problems of development of their economic relations. As a result of the analysis recommendations to overcome the identified problems and regulation of structural imbalances in development of foreign economic activity of Ukrainian regions are proposed. 

export, foreign economic activities, free trade area, import, regions of Ukraine 

The complexity and ambiguity of the processes of the regional development which are stipulated by the influence of the inner and outer variety of the factors, lead to the occurrence of the significant changes in the functioning of the regional economic systems which conversely cause the structural transformations of the regional development. The existing contradiction between immensely growing needs and limited resources in the regional economic system causes the necessity of their concentration on the priority spheres of its social-and-economic development and respectively the search for the course of accomplishment of regional structural policy. Consequently, the choice of priorities is the first component of the structural policy by logic and significance. The effective regional structural policy has to take into consideration the criteria of the priorities’ choice and to have its background on the weighed application of various instruments of disparity removal and balance renewal on the middle level. The aim of the article is to define the character and level of economic stability of the region as a result of the investigation of intensity of its structural processes and revelation of the number of factors which forms its structural priorities today. The investigation is accomplished in the example of Rivne region. In the article the evaluation of the structural changes in the regional economy according to the main forms of activity is accomplished (in the example of Rivne region), the analysis of its industrial potential and reproductive economic structure is held, and also the prospects of the structural correction of economy of this region for the nearest period is proved on the basis of the prediction of the gross value added. As a result of the evaluation of economy’s structure of Rivne region it is analyzed how stably and intensively the changes are being made in the economy’s structure of this region. As a result of the investigation the transformation of the economy’s structure of the region is revealed, namely its diversion from economy which is oriented to services into the industrial oriented economy owing to the increase of the industrial share in the total structure of the regional output and accordingly reduction of share of traditional for this region economic activity. The character of transformational processes in the economy of this region is analyzed and the priority tasks for the region for the nearest perspective in the light of these transformations are set. It is discovered that the leading spheres, that are the points of economic increase of the region according to the share of sphere in total volume of gross value added, happened to be the industry, other types of services and agronomy. Additional attention, especially during the formation of the regional policy and elaboration of the strategies for the regional development for the nearest and distant perspective, should be paid to the spheres of education, care of public health, financial activity and other types of social services. 

structural transformations, economics’ structure of the region, regional structural policy, regional development, priorities of the structural correction of the economy of the region, regional economic system, structural disparities 

The essence of infrastructural maintenance and infrastructure of cross-border markets is defined and the author's interpretation of these terms is presents. The system of infrastructural maintenance of cross-border markets is proposed and its main components are singled out. The analysis of infrastructural maintenance of cross-border markets on the territory of western border of Ukraine and adjacent border areas of neighboring countries is conducted. Analyzed and founded exactly which cross-border markets operate in a certain cross-border area and level of their infrastructural maintenance. Theoretical and methodological recommendations for the improvement of information component of infrastructural maintenance of cross-border markets and practical recommendations for the development of infrastructural maintenance of cross-border markets for goods, services and cross-border labor market are justified. 

infrastructural maintenance of cross-border markets, informational maintenance of cross-border markets, cross-border market, structure of cross-border market, market environment of cross-border market 

The peculiarities of cross-border partnerships, the role and importance in the development of border regions. Focuses attention on the opportunities and obstacles that may arise in its creation. Describe the organizational structure, management of cross-border partnerships and its life cycle. 

partnership, cross-border partnerships, cross-border labor markets 

The essence of transborder market and its place in the system of regional and international markets is outlined. The features of transborder region, which influence the functioning of transborder market, are exposed. The conceptual approaches to the research of the transborder market environment, which engulf the principles, the basic tasks of research, the algorithm of realization of analysis, information sources and methods, are proposed with the purpose of exposure and analysis of trends, factors and terms that influence the development of competitive environment in a transborder region. The main provisions provided by the research may be used for the development of methodological recommendations for the transborder market environment analysis. 

transborder region, transborder market, boundary region, regional market, transborder market environment, transborder cooperation