The normative and the real in health-care system

摘要

The author discusses legal acts regulating health care as a public activity of interest for the Republic of Croatia (health care ?dressed in legal clothes“). While considering health-care legislation, the author systematizes the matter in the way that the introduction stresses the importance of the role of legal acts regulating the system. Listed are legal sources dealing with health and health care: the Constitution of the Republic of Croatia, international legal sources, legal sources in broader and narrower sense, and sublegal acts. Moral principles are mentioned as well. Stressed is that legislation in health care and other system acts determining it, be not only a framework but a conditio sine qua non of its good functioning. Especially indicated is the obligation of the Republic of Croatia to adjust its acts and practice in order to protect the health of all citizens of European Union (EU), by the so-called statutary prevention, as stated in the EU Legal Acquest.