Адміністративно-правовий механізм забезпечення медичної та психологічної реабілітації ветеранів в умовах формування державної ветеранської політики України 

<jats:p>&lt;p&gt;&lt;i&gt;The article examines the administrative and legal mechanism for ensuring medical and psychological rehabilitation of veterans in the context of forming state veteran policy in Ukraine. It is established that the current system of rehabilitation subjects was formed not as an integrally designed construction, but as a set of situational departmental reactions to challenges that have consistently arisen since 2014, which determined its main structural shortcoming — institutional fragmentation. Powers in the researched sphere are distributed among the Ministry of Health, the Ministry of Defence, the Ministry of Social Policy, the Ministry of Veterans Affairs, and the National Health Service of Ukraine without a clear delineation of responsibility and without a single coordination centre endowed with real managerial instruments. It is proven that the Ministry of Veterans Affairs, despite its declared coordination role, is not equipped with instruments of mandatory inter-agency influence over other central executive bodies. It is revealed that the normatively defined composition of the multidisciplinary rehabilitation team is conceptually incomplete, as it does not include a social worker or a specialist in physical and rehabilitation medicine. It is proven that Ukrainian legislation in the researched sphere is simultaneously excessive in terms of the number of normative acts and insufficient due to the absence of a single legally binding procedure for the veteran's rehabilitation pathway that would bind all public administration subjects through shared responsibility for the outcome. The contractual model of financing rehabilitation services through the National Health Service of Ukraine is recognised as legally sound but substantively limited due to the absence of differentiation of financing standards depending on the type and severity of injury and an insufficient maximum duration of rehabilitation cycles. It is revealed that public administration methods are oriented primarily towards procedural compliance rather than achieving results, which is a sign of administrative imitation. Formal-legal, system-structural and comparative-legal research methods are applied. It is substantiated that the Code of Ukraine on State Veteran Policy should become an instrument of systematic renewal of rehabilitation policy — through normative consolidation of a unified procedure for the veteran's rehabilitation pathway, introduction of legally binding mechanisms of inter-agency coordination, and consolidation of result-orientation as a legally significant criterion for evaluating the activities of all public administration subjects in this sphere&lt;/i&gt;&lt;/p&gt;</jats:p>