Civil legal regulation of providing health resort services: the gaps and their elimination

The study analyzes the status of civil legal regulation of rendering health resort services (treatment, recovery, prevention of diseases, rehabilitation, and recreation of citizens) which are to some extent the traditional elements of the national social security system and an inseparable part of public health security. Civil legal duties to provide health resort services overlap with the humanitarian, social and science-based progressive principles of prevention and rehabilitation activities, the continuity in providing services by inpatient, outpatient diagnostic facilities and health resort institutions. The author examines the current state of Russian civil legal regulation in this regard and provides measures for its improvement. The research notes that there are no precise criteria for assessing the quality of health resort (medical) assistance. The study describes the health resort services agreement as the basic instrument governing the relationships between a service provider and a customer. It reviews the patient’s right to claim compensation for damages caused by the substandard medical treatment.