Administrative Contract in the Field of Medical Tourism: Concept and Specific Features
Abstract
The spread of medical tourism requires the guarantee of its proper legal regulation. Given the increased state and public interest in this type of activity, a favorable climate for attracting investment into this area, there is a need to improve and develop forms of public administration in the field of medical tourism. Administrative contract is one of such forms.
The purpose of the article is to analyze theoretical and legal approaches to characterizing the content of the concept of “administrative contract in the field of medical tourism”, to outline the perspectives for its application in domestic law and to develop propositions for its improvement.
Public authorities and health care institutions currently use administrative contracts within management relationships, where they can act as parties or participants. Administrative contracts in the field of medical tourism can be vertical in parties (although they can be also horizontal at the interstate level), in terms of legal properties – coordination or subordination, in content – agreements of exchange of obligations or agreements on cooperation (interaction). The vast majority of administrative contracts in the field of medical tourism are agreements of exchange of obligations or agreements on cooperation (interaction), where the parties are public authorities or public authority together with the relevant medical, sanatorium-health-resort or other medical or health institution, medical research institution, subjects that carry out rehabilitation or restoration. Participants in these contracts may be travel agencies that organize travelling, contact consumers and relevant medical and other institutions, insurance companies, etc.
The author has formulated own definition of the administrative contract in the field of medical tourism. Anti-conflict, law-making and the function of unification of local rule-making in the studied area have been distinguished among the functions of the administrative contract, including in the field of medical tourism.
Downloads
References
Davydenko I.V., 2020. Features of a cluster model of activity in the field of medical tourism [Osoblyvosti klasternoi modeli orhanizatsii diialnosti u sferi medychnoho turyzmu]. Ìntelekt XXI – Intellect ХХІ, No. 2, pp. 66-69. https://doi.org/10.32782/2415-8801/2020-2.12.
Baiev V.V., 2015. Modern trends in the development of medical tourism in Ukraine [Suchasni tendentsii rozvytku medychnoho turyzmu v Ukraini]. Agrosvìt, No. 7, pp. 35-38.
Mikhrovska M.S., 2014. Administrative agreement as an important form of public administration [Administratyvnyi dohovir yak vazhlyva forma diialnosti publichnoi administratsii]. Admìnìstrativne pravo ì proces – Administrative Law and Process, No. 2, pp. 102-108.
Zavalna Zh.V., 2007. Status and prospects of application of the agreement as a form of health care management [Stan ta perspektyvy zastosuvannia dohovoru yak formy upravlinnia v sferi okhorony zdorovia]. In: Medical law of Ukraine: problems of formation and development [Medychne pravo Ukrainy: problemy stanovlennia ta rozvytku]. Lviv, 19-20 April. Lviv: Vseukrainska hromadska orhanizatsiia “Fundatsiia medychnoho prava ta bioetyky Ukrainy”.
Boiaryntseva M.A., 2011. Administrative agreement: discussion issues of legal nature and legal personality of the parties [Administratyvnyi dohovir: dyskusiini pytannia pravovoi pryrody ta pravosubiektnosti storin]. Vìsnik Viŝoï radi ûsticìï, No. 2, pp. 79-94.
Perepeliuk V.H., 2003. Administrative justice: practice problems [Administratyvne sudochynstvo: problemy praktyky]. Kyiv: Konus-Yu.
Teremetskyi V.I. and Knysh S.V., 2019. Delimitation of administrative and civil legal relations in the health care sector in Ukraine [Rozmezhuvannia administratyvnykh i tsyvilnykh pravovidnosyn u sferi okhorony zdorovia v Ukraini]. Pravo ta deržavne upravlìnnâ – Law and Public Administration, No. 2, Vol. 5, pp. 47-53.
Melnyk R.S. and Bevzenko V.M., 2018. General administrative law in questions and answers [Zahalne administratyvne pravo v pytanniakh i vidpovidiakh]. Kyiv: Yurinkom Inter. (Ed.: R.S. Melnyk).
Halunko V. and Pravotorova O. (eds), 2020. Administrative law of Ukraine. Full course [Administratyvne pravo Ukrainy. Povnyi kurs]. 3rd ed. Kyiv: Akademiia administratyvno-pravovykh nauk.
Averianov V.B. (ed.), 2004. Administrative law of Ukraine [Administratyvne pravo Ukrainy]: in 2 vols. Vol. 1. Kyiv: Yurydychna dumka.
Tykhomirov Yu.A., 1998. Administrative law and process course [Kurs administrativnogo prava i protsessa]. Moscow.
Strukova V.D., 2016. Place of an administrative agreement in public and private partnership [Mistse administratyvnoho dohovoru v publichno-pryvatnomu partnerstvi]. Naukovij vìsnik Nacìonalʹnoï akademìï vnutrìšnìh sprav – Scientific Herald of the National Academy of Internal Affairs, No. 2, pp. 86-100.
Knysh S.V., 2019 Administrative legal relations in health care in Ukraine [Administratyvno-pravovi vidnosyny u sferi okhorony zdorovia v Ukraini]. Abstract of D.Sc. dissertation. Ternopil National Economic University.
Kazakova N.A., Marusheva A.A., Prav Yu.H. and Hulah A.O., 2018. Directions of development of medical tourism in Ukraine and its impact on the economy [Napriamy rozvytku medychnoho turyzmu v Ukraini ta yoho vplyv na ekonomiku]. Vìsnik èkonomìki transportu ì promislovostì – The Bulletin of Transport and Industry Economics, No. 63, pp. 20-34.
Skvortsov S.S., 2005. Administrative agreement as a means of managerial activity [Administratyvnyi dohovir yak zasib upravlinskoi diialnosti]. Abstract of Ph.D. dissertation. Kharkiv National University of Internal Affairs.
Kozyrin A.N. and Shtatina M.A. (eds), 2003. Administrative law of foreign countries [Administrativnoe pravo zarubezhnykh stran]. Moscow: Spark.
Tymoshchuk V.P. (manager), 2003. Administrative procedure and administrative services. Foreign experience and offers for Ukraine [Administratyvna protsedura ta administratyvni posluhy. Zarubizhnyi dosvid i propozytsii dlia Ukrainy]. Kyiv: Fakt.
Hurska A., 2021. Concession in the medical field [Kontsesiia u medychnii sferi]. [online] Yurydychna hazeta online. Available at https://yur-gazeta.com/publications/practice/medichne-pravo-farmacevtika/koncesiya-u-medichniy-sferi.html [Accessed 21 August 2021].
Teremetskii V.I., Muzychuk A.N., Salmanova E.Yu., Kaznacheeva D.V. and Knysh S.V., 2018. The strengthening of the negotiable beginning in legal relations between the patient and the medical institution in reforming the health care system in Ukraine [Ukreplenie dogovornykh nachal v pravootnosheniyakh mezhdu patsientom i lechebnym zavedeniem pri reformirovanii sistemy zdravookhraneniya v Ukraine]. Georgian Medical News, No. 11, pp. 155-159.
Copyright (c) 2021 A. O. Podzirov
This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License.
