The main approaches to understanding the essence of such a phenomenon as corruption are described. It is established that in accordance with the legislation of Ukraine, health care is understood as a certain system of measures that are functionally capable of ensuring the preservation and restoration of physiological and psychological functions of a person's health, which contributes to the establishment of the state of its optimal performance and socialization in order to guarantee the maximum possible biological life expectancy of a person. The correlation of the categories "health care" and "public health" is investigated and a conclusion is made about their synonymousness of their functional content.
The problems of health care as a sphere of corruption prevention include: the presence of real and potential conflicts of interest arising between officials of medical institutions and manufacturers of medicines, other interested persons interacting on the use of public finances.
It is determined that the causes of corruption risks in the field of corruption prevention are: insufficient level of efficiency of public control functions, in particular, in terms of the absence or fragmentation of regulatory consolidation of the possibility of public participation in the competitive selection procedure for senior positions of health care institutions; the complexity of the procedure for access to information on balances and supply of medicines, which requires the integration of such information into the eHealth system; lack of mechanisms to ensure transparency and objectivity in the implementation of the public procurement procedure for medicines and medicines; lack of criteria for assessing the quality of medical care, which requires the development and consolidation of national standards for its implementation at the industry level.
It was emphasized that taking measures to prevent corruption in the healthcare sector requires the implementation of the function of public control, which is possible through the functioning of the Unified State Register of Persons Who Committed Corruption or Corruption-Related Offenses, the procedure for which is established by the decision of the National Agency for the Prevention of Corruption of February 9, 2018 No. 166.
It is determined that the administrative and legal prevention of corruption in the field of health care is: promoting a healthy lifestyle of the population; minimization of subjectivism in making management decisions on the organization of public procurement of medicines and medical devices, staffing of management personnel of medical institutions; introduction of the functioning of public supervisory boards as forms of public control on the ground; revision of normative approaches to understanding the category of "medical service" in the direction of its transformation as a type of public service.
The paper establishes that at the normative level, the subjective private (personal) right to health care was first enshrined in the mid-twentieth century with the adoption of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights of 1948. It is determined that the goals of administrative and legal regulation of the healthcare sector are to consolidate not only the mechanisms for providing medical care in case of its urgency and unconditionality, but also to promote the implementation of the idea of accessibility of medical services, development and financial independence of medical institutions, minimization of manifestations of corruption risks that lead to a decrease in the quality of medical care and rescue.
It is determined that the normative regulation of the right to health care is carried out at the international, national and local levels. At the international level, the regulation of the right to health care consists inestablishing the conceptual foundations of respect for the right of a person to life and health, to a healthy environment, to physical existence and social existence. It is determined that the international legal level in accordance with Regulation (EC) No 1338/2008 of the European Parliament of the I Council of 16 December 2008 on community statistics on public health, occupational health and safety in the workplace is understood as a set of state-guaranteed measures to guarantee the provision of medical services, the exercise of the right to protection against non-recovery damages for life and health, the right to non-deferred medical care (salvation), which can ensure a person's right to a healthy and productive life.
Keywords: corruption, prevention of corruption, administrative and legal principles of prevention of corruption, public service, sphere of human health protection, public interest, public sphere.
