The organization of the healthcare system and the provision of medical care, as a rule, reflects the prevailing paradigm of values in the country and the leading legal guidelines of society. Objective processes of modern Ukrainian history are associated with an orientation towards Euro-Atlantic integration, European values, and the ideology of anthropocentrism. They cover the system of healthcare organization, legal regulation of relations in the provision of medical care and improvement of special terminology. Given the above factors, the article is devoted to the study of the problem of using special terminology in medical legislation in the historical context of the transformation of the national healthcare model in Ukraine. The work reveals that terminological polysemanticism reflects the peculiarities and complexities of the formation of a new paradigm of legal relations in the provision of medical care, including the traditionally paternalistic expectations of the population regarding the predominant social responsibility of the state in ensuring and protecting the basic vital needs of the population, including healthcare. It is proven that the ratio of key profile terms has its own dialectics: medical intervention does not always have a therapeutic purpose, treatment is not always associated with intervention, and medical care is broader than treatment and intervention and includes preventive measures, which in general does not affect the specifics of the legal regulation of relations for the provision of medical care of any type according to the algorithm defined in the legislation. It is substantiated: the term "medical care" does not contain a special legal meaning, it is a generic term to designate all types of professional activities of medical professionals for the purpose of diagnosis, prevention, treatment, rehabilitation and research, which form the content of legal relations for the provision of medical services; the term "medical service" is most appropriate to designate the legal relationship between participants in legal relations whose subject is the provision of medical care to a patient; the term "treatment" should be excluded from legal circulation, leaving in the language of medical and technological documents in the narrow sense of the clinical process of applying medical means of influence on the human body to eliminate a disease, injury, pathological condition of any nature. Recommendations are provided for the unification of the special categorical apparatus of regulatory legal acts on the basis of the implementation of a private law model of relations in the provision of medical services and modern requirements for the language and style of regulatory legal acts.
Galyna Myronova (Wed,) studied this question.