Child’s right to health protection and its fixation in regulatory legal acts

Abstract

The article is devoted to development analysis of international legislation in the field of child’s right to health protection and its codification in normative legal acts of the Republic of Belarus. Urgency of the problem of children protection at the present stage of social development is defined and fundamental provisions relating to the issues of international and national legal protection of children’s health are described in the introduction. Main purpose of the study was to analyze the evolution of legal regulation of children’s rights to protect their health and implement it both in accordance with norms of international law as well as the Constitution of the Republic of Belarus. It is written in conclusion of the article that protection of child’s right to health in the Constitution of the Republic of Belarus is based on norms of international law. The child’s rights are universal, indivisible, interdependent and interrelated. Three institutions are declared as main guarantors of child’s rights to health protection in the Republic of Belarus, these are: family, society and the state.