Visuomenės sveikatos priežiūros teisinis reguliavimas įgyvendinant teisę į sveikatos apsaugą

Abstract

The dissertation research object is public health legal regulation and its evaluation in regards to the implementing the right to health care. Paper explores the understanding of public health, separating the goals and discussed spheres (methods) of public health, with which the goals are realized. It also reveals the understanding of the right to health care, allowing definition of the latter’s content, which determines the extent of health care legal regulation. National public health legal regulation is evaluated in the aspect of the right to health care implementation: does the present legal regulation create preconditions to implement the right to health care content’s quantity and quality parameters and whether this determines if safe life, work and leisure conditions are provided for the individual, if the nation has functioning systems of health promotion and monitoring, if the nation-created mechanisms protect health in the case of a disease outbreak. These and other questions are analyzed systematically, aiming not only to reveal national public health legal regulation singularities, but also to provide proposals on how to improve it. Evaluated public health legal regulation right’s to health care implementation outlook, allowed to define the latter’s possibilities and limits, to ascertain the legal regulation improvement guidelines.