The medical staff legal awareness level as the most important condition for the effective functioning of the healthcare system
Alisa Ktshanyan, Mihran Nazaretyan
Avdalbekyan National Institute of Health, Ministry of Health, Yerevan, Armenia
ABSTRACT
The problems of the modern healthcare system which directly affect the improvement the law-awareness level of the professionals operating as medical personnel are under discussion in this article. The authors propose and interpret the following assumption: the higher the medical and healthcare professionals’ law-awareness level, the more functioning of the healthcare system is legally justified and the human rights in the healthcare system are ensured. The idea that normative legal documents forming the legal basis for the functioning of the healthcare system must be interpreted in the context of the moral principles, norms of bioethics.
Keywords: medical law , medical professional, law awareness, legal culture