Abstract. The author in article analyzes the legal nature discrimination in the public health sector by defining its essence and identifying the categories of individuals belonging to discriminated groups within the healthcare system.
The article examines the legal status of healthcare professionals in Ukraine, analysing their constitutional and professional rights enshrined in the relevant legal acts. In particular, the article focuses on the rights to proper working conditions, social protection, insurance, benefits and additional guarantees provided for by the Law of Ukraine ‘Fundamentals of Ukrainian Healthcare Legislation’.
The study of medical law issues is topical, confirmed not only by external factors such as the full-scale war with the Russian Federation, the martial law regime, and the unwavering course towards European integration, but also by the internal dynamics of the medical field’s development. This dynamic encompasses the introduction of new technologies, the expansion of private medical practice, and the urgent need to adapt national legislation to international standards.
The article formulates the paradigm of the development of medical law in Ukraine, and also considers the constituent elements that form it. We believe that the legal relations included in the subject of medical law should be divided into two groups. The first group is represented by those relations that arise during the implementation of medical activities in the process of providing medical assistance. That is, the relationship between the doctor and the patient during the implementation of the first diagnostic, treatment and preventive measures.
The author of the article analyzes the main current trends in the development of medical law as a complex branch of Ukrainian law.
The problem of drug addiction is a global one for society, since the essential sign is more socioeconomic than medical and legal, requiring the fight not with drug addicts, but with drug addiction as a phenomenon.