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The fundamental right to protection of health
The fundamental right to protection of health

Author(s): Cristina Teodora Pop
Subject(s): Constitutional Law, Criminal Law, Human Rights and Humanitarian Law, International relations/trade, EU-Accession / EU-DEvelopment, EU-Legislation
Published by: Fundatia Română pentru Inteligenta Afacerii
Keywords: The right to health; International regulations; European law; Constitutional standards; Infra-constitutional law; Infringements in the field of public health;

Summary/Abstract: The insurance of the right to protection of health is regulated as obligation of the signatory states in the main international and European documents related to fundamental rights, in the constitutions of these states and in their infra-constitutional laws. In Romania, the right to protection of health is regulated at article 34 of the Fundamental Law, its standards of protection, stipulated in the international and the European acts that our country is part to, obliging the Romanian state, through the constitutional dispositions of article 20 and article 148 paragraphs 2, as well. In application of article 34 of the Constitution, there were adopted at national level Law no.95-2006 concerning the reform in the field of health and other normative acts referring to sub domains of public health. A specific form to guarantee the right to protection of health, for each country, is the one realized by criminal law stipulations.

  • Issue Year: 2015
  • Issue No: 33
  • Page Range: 111-122
  • Page Count: 12
  • Language: Romanian