Features of the legislative regulation of iatrogenic crimes in the context of the new Criminal Code of the Republic of Armenia

Protecting the health of citizens is one of the most important tasks of the state. Currently, there is a tendency to increase iatrogenism in medical activities, characterized by a high degree of public danger, which, in turn, requires the implementation of appropriate criminal law protection and improvement of criminological measures to prevent iatrogenic crime. Scienti c and technological progress in medicine, international standards of the healthcare system, improvement of medical care technologies, the emergence of new medicines have a dual e ect, on the one hand they improve the quality of treatment of patients and their recovery, on the other hand, they are associated with a risk to the life and health of patients, which, in turn, requires the development of adequate and criminologically sound response measures. The problem of iatrogenies in medical activity, which entail a fatal outcome, making people disabled, directly a ecting the decline in their quality of life entails a violation of the constitutional rights of citizens to health protection and to receive medical care necessary to preserve life and improve health. This is the huge social harm caused by iatrogenies.