MEDICAL AND SOCIAL ANALYSIS OF PATIENTS WHO DIED OF SARS-COV-2 IN THE SPECIALIZED INFECTIOUS DEPARTMENT OF THE CITY OF SUMY DURING THE FIRST WAVE OF THE EPIDEMIC.

Objective: The aim of the article is to analyze demographic indicators, clinical symptoms, concomitant pathology, and the course of acute respiratory viral infection (ARVI) caused by SARS-CoV-2 in patients with a fatal outcome of the disease.

Patients And Methods: Materials and methods: To achieve the goal, a statistical method, an analytical method, and a method of retrospective analysis of the medical histories of patients with fatal cases who were hospitalized with a diagnosis of ARVI caused by SARS-CoV-2 were used.

Results: Results: Mortality among patients who were hospitalized with a diagnosis of ARVI caused by SARS-CoV-2 was 8.

MENINGO-ENCEPHALITIS IN A MIDDLE-AGED WOMAN HOSPITALIZED FOR COVID-19.

Objective: The aim: To pay attention of clinicians to possible lesions of the central nervous system (encephalitis) in patients with COVID-19.

Patients And Methods: Case presentation: A 44-year-old woman was admitted to our clinic because of 2-month-history of mild fever, bilateral lower lobe pneumonia, respiratory failure, generalized weakness, and some neurologic symptoms. SARS-CoV-2 RNA was detected in nasopharyngeal swab.

APPLICATION OF BEHAVIORAL ECONOMICS INSIGHTS TO INCREASE EFFECTIVENESS OF PUBLIC AWARENESS OF COVID-19.

Objective: The aim: To determine the level of public awareness of COVID-19 and information needs, as well as level of public confidence in both official information on COVID-19 and to develop recommendations for communication policy on longer-term awareness in pandemic settings COVID-19, using principles of behavioral economics.

Patients And Methods: Materials and methods: 4 focus group interviews were conducted in residents of Ukraine, with a total quantity of 48 people aged 16-70 years questioned and an anonymous questionnaire was conducted in 1,700 respondents, representing the adult population aged 18 years and older from all over Ukraine. The representative error of the study with probability of 0.

BASIC PRINCIPLES OF BEHAVIORAL ECONOMICS AND PROSPECTS FOR THEIR APPLICATION IN THE PUBLIC HEALTH SYSTEM.

Behavioral economics is a branch of economic theory that studies the influence of psychological factors on people's decisions in various life situations. At the same time, much attention is paid to situations where people behave differently than predicted by classical economic theory with its assumption of rationality and selfishness. Interesting possibility of application of behavioral economic in various spheres of human life and society, for example, reforms introducing, insurance system, public health and medicine (healthy living, disease prevention, following-up to the doctor's recommendations, improving the quality of care, etc.

Subacute enterovirus-associated encephalitis in a young adult coinfected with borrelia burgdorferI.

Objective: The aim: To pay attention of clinicians to sterile encephalitis in adults, which in fact may be caused by EVs.

Results: Results: A young woman was admitted to our clinic because of 3-month-history of mild fever, left-sided soft facial paralysis, and generalized weakness. MR brain imaging in T2W, FLAIR, and T1W mode showed focal hyper intensive abnormalities in various parts of the left hemisphere.