NORMATIVE AND ECONOMIC ENSURING OF HUMAN RIGHTS IN THE HEALTHCARE SECTOR
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The article is devoted to the issue of normative and economic ensuring of human rights in the healthcare sector. The purpose of this study is to analyse the current state of normative and economic mechanisms for ensuring human rights in healthcare, with a focus on: a) defining international standards in this field; b) identifying and analysing the extent to which national legislation influences the protection of human rights in healthcare; c) defining a national health insurance model as a regulatory and economic tool for ensuring human rights in healthcare. The methodology employed in this research comprised a range of general and special methods of scientific inquiry. These encompassed the method of system analysis, the dialectical method, formal-logical and structural-functional methods, and a number of empirical techniques. The results of the study indicate that the implementation of international standards for human rights in healthcare is supported by regulatory, jurisdictional and economic instruments. The issue of economic attractiveness is not considered to be of key importance, since the object of economic influence is the initial public interest. Human rights in healthcare are regarded as an industry-specific institution of medical law, a component of the system of fundamental human rights, and a type of social rights. It is important to note that the national model of medical insurance is in compliance with international requirements, while also maintaining a discrepancy between legislative guarantees and their implementation in practice. The following proposals are hereby put forward: the establishment and fortification of autonomous mechanisms for the monitoring and response to violations of medical rights; the introduction of an ombudsman for patients' rights or a specialised unit under the Verkhovna Rada Commissioner for Human Rights; the enhancement of the disciplinary responsibility of medical workers for human rights violations; the simplification and acceleration of judicial and pre-trial mechanisms for the protection of medical rights.
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civil legislation, human rights, economic provision, right to health, medical insurance, budgetary financing
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