Legislative regulation of issues in children’s health care in the Russian Federation
The paper considers the problems associated with the legal bases of children’s health care in the Russian Federation. It gives a review of the international legal documents, current federal legislation, and normative legal acts regulating children’s health care and the main lines of state policy. The basic legislation to ensure the rights and interests of children in the Russian Federation was elaborated in the 1990s with commitments under the Convention on the Rights of the Child and the World Declaration on the Survival, Protection, and Development of Children. Adoption of Federal Law on “the Bases of Citizen’s Health Care in the Russian Federation” under № 323-Ф3 in 2011 has become a milestone. The main priorities of state policy in the interests of children are determined by the “Concept of Demographic Policy of the Russian Federation for the Period until 2025”, the “National Action Strategies for Children’s Interests for 2012—2017”, and the governmental program “Health Development until 2020”. At present, the Health Care Committee of the State Duma of the Federal Assembly of the Russian Federation is continuing its work on improving the legislation on children’s health care, by monitoring the current enforcement practice.