The Legal Reform of Health Care System in the Republic of Serbia

Sovilj, Ranko and Stojković-Zlatanović, Sanja (2017) The Legal Reform of Health Care System in the Republic of Serbia. In: Challenges of contemporary society II : Proceedings from the International conference. "Ss. Cyril and Methodius" University in Skopje, Institute for sociological, political and juridical research, Skopje, pp. 286-302.

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Abstract

Serbian law joined the active reforms in the health care sector. The procedure for the adoption of several laws in the area of health care is undergoing, aiming at improving health care services. The main reason for the adoption of new legislation is need for harmonization in the area of health care and health insurance system taking into account modern developments in the region countries and in the EU. Increasing the scope of mandatory health insurance is projected due to the growing needs of population for health care. It covered the new categories of the population, providing greater scope of health care to vulnerable social groups. Furthermore, the obligation of the individual to respond to a call for targeted preventive examination or screening under appropriate national programs is introduced. As a part of health care reform, Serbian government adopted Biomedical assisted fertilization Law creating preconditions for the promotion of donations in order to increase the number of successful treatments It is likely to enhance the quality of health care taking into account modern standards of medical science and practice, complying with the EU legislation as well. There is also an initiative for adoption of new Pharmacy Law aiming to regulate pharmaceutical industry based on demographic, geographic and technical criteria.

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