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INFLUENCE OF THE COVID-19 CORONAVIRUS PANDEMIC ON THE LEGAL REGULATION OF THE CHILD HEALTH IN THE RUSSIAN FEDERATION

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PDF: Author(s): Bogdanova E. N.,
Number of journal: 4(53) Date: November 2020
Annotation:

Despite the large flow of scientific publications devoted to SARS-CoV-2, affecting various areas of activity, the impact of the COVID-19 coronavirus pandemic on the legal regulation of the child health in the Russian Federation is currently insufficiently studied. A pandemic, as an objectively acting external factor, inevitably affects the legal regulation and functioning of the sphere of child health protection as a whole, thus giving rise to an ambiguous assessment of the legality of actions by the state among the legal and scientific community, which becomes the object of interests of not only lawyers, but also doctors, political scientists, other specialists. Analyzing the norms of Russian legislation regulating the protection of children’s health during the coronavirus pandemic, the author comes to the conclusion that the lessons of the isolation period set both operational and systemic tasks for the existing child health care system in the Russian Federation aimed at changing and improving legislation in this area. In the conclusion, it is noted that the legislator needs to develop a unified legal concept covering the entire process of protecting the rights and interests of children in the field of health care when a high alert or emergency regime is introduced in the Russian Federation. The adopted changes in the medical legislation of the Russian Federation will make it possible not only to properly solve the problems of legal regulation of children’s health care that have developed during the COVID-19 coronavirus pandemic, but also to prevent their occurrence in the event of a repeated or new surge in the incidence in Russia, and also to be used in the development of the project concept Federal Law “On the protection of children’s health in the Russian Federation”, with the aim of improving the legislative provision for the protection of the health of underage patients.

Keywords:

coronavirus pandemic, children, health protection, legal regulation, medical care, legislator, state, medicines, legal concept, high alert, emergency.

For citation:

Bogdanova E. N. Influence of the COVID-19 coronavirus pandemic on the legal regulation of the child health in the Russian Federation. Business. Education. Law, 2020, no. 4, pp. 342–348. DOI: 10.25683/VOLBI.2020.53.468.