Dentistry as a specialty belongs to the professions carrying a high occupational risk of exposure to several pathogens due to the special features of dental treatment. Knowing the clinical course of these diseases can significantly contribute to the diagnostic process and facilitate the timely detection of the disease thus, reducing the risk of transmission in the dental chair. At the present stage, the training of future dentists requires the incorporation of innovative teaching methods aimed at developing students' creative and critical thinking that can be achieved by the business game method. Therefore, the purpose of the article is to improve the professional competencies of dental students by introducing the business game method in the study of the discipline "Infectious Diseases". The article presents modern approaches to teaching the discipline to future dentists in order to build up and strengthen professional competencies and practical skills in working with patients. The use of a business game allows each student to work out an algorithm of actions in accordance with the chosen clinical situation, to identify errors in working with a patient or using dental instruments that is critically important in preventing the spread of hospital-acquired infections and contributes to the formation of professional skills of a future dentist. The introduction of this teaching method is aimed at improving the quality of dental students' knowledge of the clinical picture of infectious diseases; it will help in the formation of medical alertness for the diagnosis of infectious diseases by mucosal lesions, ways to implement the epidemic process in the dental chair, infection control and measures for the specific prevention of infectious diseases. Thus, the active involvement of students in the educational business game makes it possible to improve the professional competencies of future dental doctors that is essential in their professional activity.

A modern high-quality human life is impossible without the latest IT achievements, which make it possible to increase the level of comfort and saturation of the life of an ordinary citizen. For Ukraine, which has a high potential, but an underdeveloped IT sphere, any direction in the development of the IT sphere is important. Therefore, there is a need to highlight the principles on the basis of which economic policy of regulating the development of the IT sphere should be based. This will allow to restore the country's economy in the post-war period. The purpose of the article is to substantiate the system of principles on which economic policy of regulating the development of the IT sphere in Ukraine should be based. It has been established that in order to ensure the effectiveness of the process of forming an economic policy for regulating the development of the IT sphere in Ukraine, the authorities must adhere to nine basic principles. The principle of scientificity dictates the need to lay the latest achievements in the IT sphere as the basis of economic policy toolkit. On this basis, an effective toolkit for minimizing risks should be formed to ensure stable trends in socio-economic development of the country's economy. The principle of justice is aimed at developing a system of effective tools for the development of the IT sphere. This will help to achieve sustainable development goals, minimize corruption and improve social standards of life. The principle of comprehensiveness consists in carrying out activities for the career guidance of young people, providing them with high-quality IT education and jobs, and specialists – with high-performance computer equipment. The principle of priority marks the focus of IT projects on those areas of activity that are of the highest priority for the development of the Ukrainian economy. In the post-war period, the restoration of the defense, medical, construction, food, mining and processing industries and agriculture in Ukraine should be considered a priority. The principle of strategic orientation should direct economic policy towards the achievement of strategic goals. It is important that the creation of new jobs based on the latest IT will increase the average level of wages and gradually approach the solution of the strategic goal – the return of Ukrainians to peacetime. The principle of adaptability orients the development of the IT sphere towards new technologies and information products. At the same time, current and strategic needs of regional and national economy of Ukraine should be taken into account. The principle of synergy determines the need to ensure the scale of the processes of digitalization of the country. The principle of inclusiveness directs the authorities to focus on the reintegration of Ukrainians who have received the status of persons with disabilities during the war. This project can be implemented by training such persons free of charge in a specific IT profession and providing powerful samples of computer equipment for successful online work in the IT sphere. The principle of European integration is based on the development of the country's IT sphere. This will make it possible to introduce changes in all spheres of the life of society and increase their efficiency by accelerating the pace of digitalization of managerial and technological processes.

The investigation of factors that may affect the severity of coronavirus infection and mortality has been one of the main areas of medical research. At the present stage, among the possible risk factors of severe COVID-19 course there is the influence of age as a predictor of disease progression in inpatient. Objective: to determine the clinical and laboratory characteristics of the course of coronavirus disease COVID-19 depending on the age of hospitalized patients in Poltava region. Materials and methods: a retrospective cohort follow-up study was conducted involving 150 patients with a laboratory-confirmed diagnosis of "Acute respiratory disease COVID-19" at the Poltava Regional Clinical Infectious Diseases Hospital. Patients were divided into 2 age groups: 60 to 95 years and 18 to 59 years Statistical processing was carried out using SPSS Statistics 25.0 software. Results and conclusions: the study has found that the clinical and laboratory characteristics of the course of coronavirus disease COVID-19 are typical except for some features: hospitalized patients over 60 years were significantly more likely to have severe (p = 0.037) and critical (p = 0.063) course of the disease, require oxygen support (p = 0.001), in particular using low oxygen flows (p = 0.027). Leukocytosis was diagnosed 3.4 times more often in patients older than 60 years (p = 0.032), while leukopenia (p = 0.022) and thrombocytopenia were 2.2 times more often in people younger than 60 years. 0.0041). Severe disease was significantly more common in hospitalized women under 60 years of age than in men of the same age (p = 0.046).

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