Vrasidas Polymenakos

• PhD in Law (Sociology of Law/Public Health Law)
• Postdoctoral Researcher at Panteion University

Social rights are part of the welfare state. Social policy promoted social rights through its redistributive role. Now social policy tends to lose its redistributive character by promoting the protection of the individual in extreme poverty conditions instead of social policy measures against inequalities. What's your opinion?

I want to know if there are purely state-owned pharmaceutical companies and which is their role. For example intervening in the market, ensuring access to health services, promoting the state's interest in external markets, used for military needs etc. I don't refer only to military pharmaceuticals.

Books or papers, not the EU website. Thank you.

For example, do poor areas, and vulnerable groups are affected more by the pandemic than other areas and groups.

With the term Health Law, I mean Public Health Law, Medical Law and other subgenres. The question refers to academic and professional fields.

The Astana and Alma-Ata declarations shaped the characteristics of modern primary health care. How the public health system has improved and how it has not? In view of the recent COVID-19 pandemic.

In academic and professional level.

According to Luhmann, the law works as an autopoietic system. In other words, can we define the law as a closed structure? Discuss.

For example:

1. It's a rule established by an authority (legal positivism).

2. It's a rule that cannot be separated from its application (legal realism).

3. It's a rule that should serve a higher natural law (natural law theory).

4. It's a superstructure that serves the economic conditions of society (marxian theory).

There are also other approaches that you can mention.

Recently, I started studying English Common Law. Although in my country, the justice system is based on civil law, I found interesting the fact that the legislative power is, in fact, given to judges through the precedent in common law systems. What's your opinion? Are you from a common-law country?

For example, can the law determine the behaviour of indiduals or even social groups? How can we detect this function of the law?

According to W.H.O. and to Alma Ata Declaration, health is a state of physical, mental and social well-being in which disease and infirmity are absent. In other words, these definitions accept that there are social and economic factors that determine the level of health in communities. In Article 168 T.F.E.U. (ex Article 152 T.E.C.) a higher level of health is promoted. However, many E.U. countries' resources are limited by budgetary targets or deficits. In light of the recent COVID-19 crisis, many N.H.S.s, even in strong economies, confront a massive blow. What's your point of view in legal and social terms?