The Concept of Public-Law Interest in Medical Legal Relations

The relevance of the study is determined by the growing significance of healthcare as a socially vital sphere where constitutionally protected individual rights intersect with public interests of society and the state. The increasing complexity of regulatory mechanisms governing medical activities, along with the expansion of public oversight and imperative legal regulation, necessitates a theoretical reconsideration of public-law interest as a fundamental category of medical legal relations.
The purpose of the article is to reveal the essence of public-law interest in medical legal relations and to develop a coherent doctrinal approach to its content. To achieve this purpose, the study addresses the analysis of scholarly concepts of public interest, the differentiation between public and private interests in healthcare, and the identification of legal forms and mechanisms through which public-law interest is implemented in medical activity.
The scientific significance of the research lies in clarifying the theoretical and legal status of publiclaw interest within the system of medical legal relations and substantiating its system-forming role in public healthcare regulation. The practical significance of the study consists in the possibility of applying its findings in legislative development in the field of public health protection and in the law-enforcement activities of public authorities.
The research demonstrates that public-law interest in medical legal relations constitutes a legally institutionalized set of socially significant needs aimed at ensuring public health protection, accessibility and quality of medical care, as well as sanitary and epidemiological safety. It is concluded that this interest is primarily realized through imperative methods of public law and serves as an integrative factor coordinating the interests of patients, medical professionals, and the state.
The scientific novelty of the study lies in the formulation of an original doctrinal interpretation of public-law interest as an independent legal category of medical law, enabling a renewed understanding of the balance between public and private principles in the regulation of medical legal relations.

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