THE HUMAN RIGHT TO QUALITY MEDICAL CARE: CHANGING THE PARADIGM OF INTERNATIONAL COOPERATION BETWEEN STATES AND...

The article examines the issue of international cooperation between states to ensure the human right to quality medical aid, the paradigm of which is radically changing under the influence of such a catalyst as the Covid-19 pandemic, as well as the issue of interaction between public authorities and local governments for ensuring this right in foreign countries.The purpose of the article is to identify features of normative-legal as well as organizational and legal (institutional) mechanisms of international cooperation between countries to ensure the human right to quality medical aid during the Covid-19 pandemic, interaction of public authorities and local governments to ensure this right in foreign countries.The object of the research is the public relations arising during the Covid-19 pandemic with international cooperation of states as for ensuring the human right to quality medical aidalong with the interaction of public authorities and local governments.The methodological basis of the conducted research is the general methods of scientific cognitivism as well as concerning those used in legal science: methods of analysis and synthesis, formal logic, comparative law etc. The concept of international cooperation between states to ensure the human right to quality medical aid has been clarified. The fact of the evolution of its goal under the influence of such a catalyst as the Covid-19 pandemic has been proven: from achieving the balance of interests between the main participants in relations of the health sector to achieving common goals of sustainable development in the health sector. For the first time within domestic scientific research new features of the regulatory and legal mechanism of international cooperation of states as for ensuring the human right to quality medical aid have been identified, which arose during the Covid-19 pandemic. It is argued that it is the concept of sustainable development that should be the paradigm of such cooperation. For the first time, new features of the institutional mechanism of international cooperation of states as forensuring, the human right to quality medical aid that arose during the Covid-19 pandemic were identified. It is emphasized that the UN established new international legal requirements for national health systems, which did not change the paradigm ensuring the human right to quality medical care is the main responsibility of the state, but they changed the paradigm of interaction between public authorities and local governments in foreign countries during the period Covid-19 pandemic. New established approaches to such interaction have been revealed.