Research Article Open Access Journal of Media & Management History of Medicine and Medical Law Mukhitdinova Firyuza Abdurashidovna

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Citation:
Abdurashidovna MF (2019) History of Medicine and Medical Law Journal of Media & Management. SRC/
JMM-101. 

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relations, arising in connection with the conduct of san-
itary and epidemiological measures and the provision 
of medical and preventive care to citizens.
Therefore, medical law is formed as a complex branch 
of legislation, including the norms of many branches of 
Uzbek law regulating relations in various fields of med-
ical activity - from healthcare management to specific 
relations between medical institutions and citizens.
Medical activity is closely related to the norms of var-
ious branches of law: civil law (regulates property and 
personal non-property relations);
Labor legislation (regulates social relations related to 
the labor activity of citizens);
Legislation on marriage and the family (defines the le-
gal basis for family-marriage relations);
Environmental legislation (enforces environmental 
management standards and environmental safety); ad-
ministrative law (regulates relations in the process of 
executive and administrative activities of public author-
ities and administration);
Criminal law (governs relations to protect citizens from 
criminal attacks on their rights). When choosing the 
forms and methods of transformations carried out in 
public health, the population’s need for medical care is 
taken into account, as well as the economic potential 
of society to meet these needs. For a long time it was 
believed that the level of medical care in the country is 
higher, the greater the cost of developing health care (an 
extensive path of development). 
This situation has largely lost its significance since the 
beginning of the 1960s, when negative trends in health 
dynamics were outlined in almost all countries. It be-
came obvious that the extensive way to develop health 
care has exhausted itself and new approaches and con-
cepts for the development of medical care are required.
Among these new concepts are two areas of develop-
ment, on the basis of which a modern health care sys-
tem was built in most developed countries. The first 
concept (risk factors) suggests that people’s health de-
pends not only on health, but also on the way and living 
conditions with their social and individual-behavioral 
characteristics, as well as the state of the environment.
Subsequently, this direction has grown into a strategy 
for promoting health and disease prevention, which in 
many countries is being implemented in the form of the 
WHO-recommended Health for All program.
The second concept was related to the need to increase 
the efficiency of health services, which corresponded 
to the transition from extensive development of health 
to intensive. This meant that in many countries of the 
world they began to measure results with costs, trying 
to find an optimal model in which relatively small costs 
would give good results in the form of improved indica-
tors of population health [8].
The legal basis for protecting health in Uzbekistan is 
primarily the Basic Law of the State - the Constitution 
of the Republic of Uzbekistan. In Art. 40 of the Consti-
tution states that everyone has the right to protection 
of health and medical care. The state provides health 
protection irrespective of gender, race, nationality, lan-
guage, social origin, official position, place of residence, 
religion, beliefs, membership of public associations, as 
well as other circumstances.
Guaranteed protection against any form of discrimina-
tion due to the presence of a disease in a citizen.
Citizens have the right to regularly receive reliable and 
timely information about factors that contribute to 
maintaining their health or that have a harmful effect 
on it. Such information is provided by the local admin-
istration through the media or directly to citizens upon 
request. This right of citizens, if necessary, can be estab-
lished by the courts. 
In case of illness, disability, and in other cases, citizens 
have the right to medical and social assistance, which 
includes preventive, medical, diagnostic, rehabilita-
tion, prosthetic and orthopedic and dental prosthet-
ics, as well as social measures to care for sick, disabled 
and disabled people, including payment of temporary 
disability benefits. Citizens have the right to a medical 
examination, including an independent one, which is 
carried out on their personal application in specialized 
institutions. 
Therefore, today the Ministry of Health and Social 
Welfare of Uzbekistan has become a special authorized 
body ensuring the constitutional right of citizens
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