The constitutional right to health care: the content, legal mechanisms to ensure in the paradigm of modern realities

Abstract

This article deals with the actual facets of the constitutional right to health care in view of the provisions of the updated Constitution of the Republic of Belarus. It tracks the main approaches revealing the normative content of the right in question based on the constitutional principles and rules, the constitutional case-law of the Republic of Belarus. The author comes from the historical aspect of the constitutional and legal grounds of the right to health care in Belarus and also applies the foreign practice of its constitutional context. In analyzing the legal essence of this right the author calls for the constitutional and legal mechanisms to ensure it to be improved. Some conclusions and considerations are backed up by the legal positions of the Constitutional Court of the Republic of Belarus and the foreign constitutional practice.