CERTAIN ASPECTS OF ADMINISTRATIVE AND LEGAL SUPPORT OF SANITARY AND EPIDEMIOLOGICAL WELFARE OF THE POPULATION IN RUSSIA
Background: the organization of administrative and legal regulation of providing sanitary and epidemiological welfare of the population in Russia is a complex organiza tional and legal structure. Sanitary-and-epidemiologic well-being covered by the notion of “security” and “national security” and its security is based on centralization, as article 71 of the Constitution of the security issues referred to the exclusive jurisdiction of the Russian Federation. At the same time, in accordance with article 72 of the Constitution of the Russian Federation, coordination of health issues and implementation of measures to combat epidemics is the joint responsibility of Russia and its subjects. If there are threats in the field of sanitary and epidemiological well-being, this situation requires the adoption of a set of regulatory legal acts at the Federal, regional and municipal levels. However, in order to take effective measures to promptly respond to threats in this area, an optimally short legal algorithm of actions of public administration bodies is necessary. Objective: to optimize the legal regulation of the activities of Federal Executive authorities and Execu tive authorities of the constituent entities of the Russian Federation on health issues and to implement measures to combat epidemics. Methodology: general scientific (analysis, synthesis, system-structural) and private scientific (logical-legal, comparative-legal) meth ods of cognition, allowing to reveal some problems of administrative and legal support of sanitary and epidemiological welfare of the population in Russia. Results: the complexity of the organizational and legal structure of ensuring the sanitary and epidemiological well-being of the population in Russia does not create conditions for a timely and effective response by authorized Executive authorities to emerging threats, and some recommenda tions have been developed to change this situation. Conclusions: the organizational and legal resources on ensuring sanitary and epidemiological welfare of the population in Rus sia, it is advisable to zoom in to the threats of epidemics with a focus in the bodies of state power of subjects of the Russian Federation in the form of powers of the Federation or the Federal authority delegated to the regions.