[PUBLIC CONTROL AS A MEAN OF ENSURING THE REALIZATION OF THE RIGHT TO HEALTH CARE]

The purpose of the article is to reveal the essence and specific features of public control as a mean of ensuring the realization of the right to health care, taking into account the existing scientific points of view and reasoning. The research materials were scientific works of Ukrainian scholars, analytical materials, political and legal opinion-based journalism, Internet resources and Ukrainian legislation regulating the activities of public control (supervision) in the health care sector. Generally scientific (systemic, structural and functional, comparative, etc.) and specially legal methods of scientific cognition (formal and legal, comparative and legal, method of studying legal practice, etc.) were used in the course of the study. The author has provided characteristics of public control in the health care sector and has formulated own definition of such a control. The author has studied the powers of the subjects of public control in the health care sector, where control over the observance of legislation in the activities of a certain authority or health institution is the main one. It has been noted that the activities of subjects, exercising public control, have the organizational nature and do not lead to legally significant consequences, although they contribute to the implementation of legal forms of ensuring relations in the health care sector. It has been emphasized that the subjects, exercising public control, do not have authoritative powers, but contribute to the realization of civil right to participate in the healthcare management.