ANALYSIS OF THE PRACTICE OF REGIONAL MECHANISMS FOR ENSURING THE RIGHT TO HEALTH ON THE EXAMPLE OF THE EUROPEAN COURT OF HUMAN RIGHTS

Abstract

This article provides a legal analysis of the practice of the European Court of Human Rights as a key regional mechanism for the protection of human rights. In order to identify the role of international judicial authorities
in ensuring the right to health, the article examines in detail the regional judicial case law. The article examines the specifics and barriers of ensuring the right to health based on the political, economic and ethnic reality of
the continent, as well as on historical traditions and values. Analyzing the situation with the protection of the right to health by regional human rights mechanisms, there is a general tendency to increase the number of individual complaints to international judicial and quasi-judicial authorities, where complaints about improper performance of official duties, imperfections in the health care system and the legal framework in the State, as well as violations of the right to health in places of detention are most often observed. detention, untimely and substandard medical care, euthanasia, abortion, etc. All this certainly requires further progressive development,
codification, understanding and application of the right to health based on their practice of complaint handling and interpretation.