Melnychuk M. Legal Regulation of Health Protection of the USSR's Population (1921-1929)

The thesis dissertation is a complex research in legal regulation of health protection of the USSR's population (1921-1929). The work deals with regularities, directions, methods, peculiarities of the regulation of health protection of the USSR's population in the investigated period. The theoretically-methodological principles of the research have been justified. The structure and plenary powers of the USSR's Folk health commissariat and its local entities have been described. The place and role of the labour insurance medicine bodies in the system of health protection have been determined. The establishment, powers and activity of the Ukrainian Society of the Red Cross have been viewed. A number of normatively legal acts, which secured the organizing of medical activity, sanatorium-resort business and providing of health protection of a mother and a child, have been analysed. The legal principles of preventing the infectious disease of the population and sanitary hygienic prosperity of territories and constituencies have been exposed.