Platonova N.I., Vargina V.M. International Cooperation of the Russian Federation in Health Care amid the Pandemic
DOI: https://doi.org/10.15688/lc.jvolsu.2021.3.16
Natalia I. Platonova, Candidate of Sciences (Jurisprudence), Associate Professor, Department of Legal Fundamentals of Management, MGIMO University, Prosp. Vernadskogo, 76, 119454 Moscow, Russian Federation, This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it. , https://orcid.org/0000-0002-2603-3025
Valeria M. Vargina, Student, Faculty of Management and Politics, MGIMO University, Prosp. Vernadskogo, 76, 119454 Moscow, Russian Federation, This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it. , https://orcid.org/0000-0003-3967-6326
Introduction: the current epidemiological situation in the world, characterized as a pandemic since March 11, 2020, has proved the importance of developing national health systems, and also emphasized the need to develop the channels of international cooperation in health care for joint operational measures to combat the spread of the virus. In this regard, the purpose of the study was to determine the prospects for the development of this area and the opportunities for improving the existing systems. Methods: the general scientific methods were used in the research process: logical, system-structural, complex, and functional, as well as the specific scientific methods in the form of the method of concrete-sociological research, the method of modeling, and the formal-legal method. Results: the paper considers the basics of the implementation of international cooperation of the Russian Federation in healthcare amid the pandemic: the differentiation of international cooperation formats is carried out, the legal bases of cooperation are analyzed, and the organization of interaction with the World Health Organization is studied. Justified in the work the trajectories of the development of international cooperation in healthcare are predicted. Conclusions: as a result of the study, it is established that the post-coronavirus era will be characterized by new priorities for cooperation. On the basis of the conducted research, a proposal was made to amend the Federal Law “On the Basics of Public Health Protection in the Russian Federation”, as well as the main recommendations for further implementation of international cooperation in healthcare.
Key words: international cooperation of the Russian Federation, public health, health care system, the coronavirus pandemic, the World Health Organization.
Citation. Platonova N.I., Vargina V.M. International Cooperation of the Russian Federation in Health Care amid the Pandemic. Legal Concept = Pravovaya paradigma, 2021, vol. 20, no. 3, pp. 100-107. (in Russian). DOI: https://doi.org/10.15688/lc.jvolsu.2021.3.16