This article is dedicated to examining the peculiarities of the formation of the right to health as a separate category of contemporary international human rights law and its codification. The study analyzes the legal nature of the right to health, identifies five stages of its development, and outlines the international instruments and mechanisms for its enforcement. It is revealed that at each stage the right to health has undergone its own evolutionary development, and today it constitutes a set of norms with its own principles, unified into an independent category of international human rights law that also serves as the conceptual foundation for both international and national medical law. Based on the above, it is proven that the right to health belongs to somatic human rights and is a fundamental inalienable human right that is subject to the fewest restrictions.

Human rights, somatic human rights, medical law

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