DOCTORAL APPROACHES TO THE RIGHTS OF MEDICAL SERVICE BENEFITS IN RELATION TO CONSUMER LEGISLATION

Abstract

The protection of human health is certainly a matter of the utmost importance to humanity, hence the due attention given everywhere at the current stage to theoretical and practical issues, aiming at the fundamental rights and freedoms of the beneficiary of medical services. The doctrinal approach to the issue of the rights of the consumer of medical services involves taking into account a wide range of issues and implications of a political, economic, cultural nature, as well as the particularities of historical development and stages of development. The reasoning regarding the application of consumer status concerning health services derives from two opposite views. Firstly from a protectionist perspective, which refers to the use of consumer law to protect patients, and secondly, from the perspective of introducing the health sector in a market logic, by the same conception. The purpose of the research is to highlight several doctrinal theories regarding the status of the consumer in medical services.

Keywords

• doctrine
• health
• rights
• consumers
• medical services
• consumer legislation