The article examines the potential of the healthcare system as a complex, multi-level, and multifunctional object of public administration. It is substantiated that effective potential management is a key prerequisite for ensuring the system's resilience to crisis challenges, improving the quality of medical services, and forming long-term development strategies for the industry. It is determined that the potential of the healthcare system functions as a strategic resource, a tool for optimizing the use of limited resources, a means of increasing investment attractiveness, and a foundation for innovative development. The prerequisites for the transformation of Ukraine's healthcare system are analyzed, specifically the consequences of the post-Soviet model's functioning, imperfect financial support, personnel shortages, infrastructural obsolescence, and the impact of modern crisis factors, including military actions. The necessity of transitioning to a new model of public administration, focused on the development of potential as a system-forming element, is justified. The main components of healthcare system potential are identified and structured: human resources (personnel), financial, and infrastructural. The content of human resource potential is revealed through its functional subsystems (medical, educational-scientific, organizational-managerial) and properties (professional-qualificational, quantitative-structural, gender-age). The sources of its formation are characterized, including the higher education system, staff retraining, and international mobility. Financial potential is considered as a set of resources and mechanisms for their mobilization and utilization, highlighting resource, investment, international, institutional, legal, and procedural components. Infrastructural potential is presented through network-subject, innovative-technological, engineering-technical, transport-logistics, information-digital, and energy components. Special attention is paid to the adaptive-reserve component of potential as the basis for making strategic public administration decisions under conditions of uncertainty and crises. It is proven that the potential of the healthcare system is cross-sectoral in nature and is influenced by educational, social, financial, investment, and security policies. The proposed approaches allow for the improvement of the methodology of public administration in the sector and the enhancement of its efficiency.
Anton Kurbanov (2025) studied this question.