The article identifies the potential for improving the educational sphere within the Lviv agglomeration through enhanced cooperation between territorial communities. Areas of dissatisfaction with the quality of education among residents of the studied communities are outlined. The key challenges faced by these communities, particularly concerning educational accessibility, economic efficiency, and qualified staffing that can be addressed by collaboration are discussed in the article. The need for strategic partnerships across municipal boundaries is increasingly important. By pooling resources, sharing knowledge, and coordinating efforts, communities can achieve a higher standard of education that benefits all stakeholders. The quantitative and qualitative indicators of the development of the educational sphere in the communities of the Lviv agglomeration are analyzed in the article. They confirm the uneven access to quality educational services. The first major issue explored is the accessibility of education. The article outlines the disparities in access to education across different parts of the Lviv agglomeration, especially between urban centers and rural areas. It highlights the uneven distribution of schools, particularly high-quality educational institutions, which causes an imbalance in the level of students’ knowledge. The study suggests that through coordinated inter-community efforts, such as joint education centers and shared digital education platforms, students from underserved areas could gain better access to schooling, ensuring equal learning opportunities across the region. Economic efficiency is another central theme of the article. By working together, communities can share infrastructure, optimize spending, and even co-invest in large-scale educational projects. This kind of collaborative financial management could result in better outcomes without increasing the financial burden on individual communities. The article also addresses the persistent issue of qualified teachers, which is a challenge in many smaller communities. By fostering collaboration between municipalities, a solution can be found in the form of shared staffing programs, professional development initiatives, and collective recruitment efforts. This could create a more flexible and mobile workforce, allowing qualified educators to work across multiple jurisdictions, thus improving the overall quality of education. Particular attention in the article is focused on the coordination of efforts at the institutional level and the creation of a coordination council to assess the cooperation potential of Lviv agglomeration communities. The article suggests involving all participants of the educational process from each community. 

Lviv agglomeration, partnership of communities, educational services, potential of partnership of territorial communities, effectiveness of the educational sphere 

The important role of the transport and logistics system and its infrastructure in realizing the export potential of Ukraine’s regions in the context of a protracted war and post-war recovery requires well-considered public policy measures to support them and further develop them. The measures should aim to increase the regions’ resilience to the challenges of war and lay the foundations for long-term growth. Increasing the sustainability of transport and logistics infrastructure is possible by combining mechanisms in government policy to create favorable conditions for the restoration of each of its structural elements with tools to stimulate their development in accordance with the priority areas of realizing the export potential of Ukraine’s regions. Based on the results of a comprehensive analysis of the transport and logistics infrastructure efficiency, the article offers a set of the state policy measures of its support and development in the regional socio-economic systems of Ukraine. The main directions of such a policy, in our opinion, should include the expansion of opportunities for realizing the export potential of Ukraine’s regions; diversification of transport and logistics infrastructure development in several complementary priority areas as an element of state economic security; integration of Ukraine’s transport and logistics infrastructure into the world transport system and intensification of Ukraine’s cooperation with international financial organizations to attract international financial assistance for modernization. Ukraine’s active European integration is an important factor in shaping the basis for a qualitative transformation and modernization of the transport and logistics infrastructure, which will open wider access to the EU market and facilitate the use of its opportunities to increase and more effectively realize the export potential of Ukraine’s regions, develop their transport and logistics infrastructure in accordance with EU norms and standards, and expand mutually beneficial partnerships with EU countries in the field of transport and logistics based on national interests. The fullest possible use of the transport and logistics infrastructure in the process of realizing the export potential of Ukraine’s regions will contribute to the rapid recovery and stable development of Ukraine’s economy and increase its competitiveness both in the domestic and foreign markets. 

transport and logistics system, transport and logistics infrastructure, export potential of the region, border crossing capacity, containerization of freight transportation 

The paper analyzes the health care sector functioning at the national level, in particular, the dynamics of the budget financing of the health care system of Ukraine for 2004-2017, the growth rates of total expenditures on health care by sources of income; estimates total expenses on health care per capita and in relation to the GDP of the state; analyzes the expenditures on health care in the regional dimension taking into account the level of provision of residents with medical care. This made it possible to assess the current state of financial provision of the sphere and the state’s ability to provide social guarantees to every citizen regarding health care. The trends and obstacles of the functioning of medical insurance in the national and regional dimensions are outlined in this article, namely: the dynamics of volumes and growth rates of gross and net insurance premiums and payments in the market of voluntary medical insurance of Ukraine are analyzed; indicators of the amount of insurance premiums received from individuals and legal entities are compared; the parameters of development of the market of medical insurance in Ukraine are determined; the assessment of the concentration of insurers on the volume of collected premiums for this type of insurance, as well as the presence of foreign capital and its impact on market development is conducted; the rating of regions of Ukraine according to the volumes of collected insurance premiums for voluntary medical insurance are determined. This allowed to identify the key problems and preconditions for the introduction and development of an obligatory health insurance system in the context of modern healthcare transformations. Analysis of programs of insurance companies, tax and regulatory regulation of health insurance in Ukraine shows the volatility of the market and the low level of readiness of the state to introduce obligatory health insurance. In contrast, there is a steady increase in the population covered by health insurance. This testifies to the readiness of the population to introduce insurance principles in the medical sphere. On the basis of the data, there is a significant differentiation in the financing of health care in different regions, and there is also a significant difference between urban and rural populations regarding the quality and efficiency of provision of medical services. The development of health insurance in a regional dimension is characterized by strong differentiation. The dynamics are growing, despite the fact that the share of insurance premiums from voluntary health insurance in the total amount of collected insurance premiums in the regions is still negligible. 

health care, voluntary health insurance, obligatory health insurance, gross insurance premiums, gross insurance indemnity, regions 

The key aspects of the integrated approach to the implementation of health insurance principles in health care in the context of reform are outlined. The distribution of the levels of protection of health protection according to the sources of financing to the primary, basic and service is carried out. The mechanism of functioning of compulsory health insurance in Ukraine is proposed, which includes organizational and financial components. The institutional component of the mechanism involves the creation of a Health Insurance Bureau, regional funds and the involvement of exclusively «trusted insurance companies», whose activities are regulated by law. Financial instruments include contributions from insurers, allocations from state and local budgets, certificate cards for each insured person. It is determined that the purpose of the financial mechanism is to increase the effectiveness of the formation and use of financial resources and to ensure the protection of public health. 

health care, mechanism, health insurance