bluuebunny/crossref_metadata_2025 huggingface dataset:
THE INFLUENCE OF UNHEALTHY NEUROTICISM ON THE PECULIARITIES OF PERSONAL DECISION MAKING
Authors: Savchenko Olena V. , Muzychko Lyudmila V. , Kolesnichenko Lina A.
Published: January 2022

The aim: To determine the influence of unhealthy neuroticism (the high level of personal neuroticism) on the properties of the decision-making process, to identify the differences in the decision-making process features of persons with high and low levels of neuroticism.
Materials and methods: A comparative design was used with two contrasting groups, which differed in the level of neuroticism. Causal relationships were defined using one-way analysis of variance (ANOVA). The methods «Diagnosis of the neurotic personality tendency” (L. Vasserman), “Diagnosis of decision-making features” (D. Myroshnyk, O. Savchenko), “Locus of control” (O. Ksenofontova) were used for diagnosis.
Results: It was identified that individuals with a high level of neurotic personality tendency have exhibited less self-control in the decision-making process (p <0.01), have formed a pessimistic expectations of the ways in which decisions should be fulfilled (p <0.01). A high level of neurotic personality tendency has occurred mostly in students with a high level of external locus of control (p <0.01), a low assessment of self-competence (p <0.01), low internality in the field of interpersonal relations (p <0.05), unformed willingness to overcome difficulties (p <0.05). The level of neuroticism is an important factor of the peculiarities of decision-making process (self-control (p <0.001) and optimistic expectations (p <0.02)). The general level of internality has determined the level of neurotic personality tendency (p <0.02)
Conclusions: Unhealthy neuroticism, which manifests itself in a high level of neurotic personality tendency, is a risk factor of mental health, and it prevents timely make appropriate decisions. The high level of external locus of control mediately (through increasing the level of neurotic personality tendency) affects the procedural and effective properties of the decision-making process.
STUDY OF THE MENTAL STATE OF STUDENTS IN THE PROCESS OF ONLINE EDUCATION DURING THE CORONAVIRUS PANDEMIC
Authors: Borysenko Larysa L. , Korvat Larysa V. , Lovka Olga V. , Lovochkina Antonina M. , Serhieienkova Oksana P. , Beridze Ketevan
Published: January 2022

The aim: Exploring the specifics of the underlying mental states of university students in the context of online learning during the COVID-19 pandemic and identifying their relationship to mental health.
Materials and methods: The study of mental states was carried out using three valid methods, namely: a clinical questionnaire for the detection and evaluation of neurotic states (K. Yakhin, D. Mendelevich), a questionnaire for diagnosing the level of social frustration (L. Wasserman, adaptation of V. Bojko), State-Trait Anxiety Inventory (STAI) (Ch. Spielberger, adaptation by Yu. Khanin). The author’s questionnaire (L. Borysenko) was used to study the connection between the factors of online learning and emotional states of students. The obtained empirical data were subjected to qualitative and quantitative processing.
Results: The analysis of the obtained data allows to state the fact of predominance of high and increased level of situational and personal anxiety in the subjects in the conditions of online learning. In the process of psychodiagnosis of neurotic states, it was found that most students have a level of painful or borderline mental conditions such as anxiety, neurotic depression, asthenia and autonomic disorders. It was found that students have an elevated level and high level of social frustration. The main factors of online learning, which, according to students, cause them to deteriorate mental health are: forced to stay in a confined space, lack of direct social contacts, prolonged stay in a static position, increased study load and volume of tasks, anxiety for academic success and quality professional training, concern for their health and the health of their loved ones.
Conclusions: The forced transition to online learning due to the COVID-19 pandemic has negatively affected the mental state of many students. In most respondents, this manifested itself in increased anxiety, depression, autonomic reactions due to limited opportunities to communicate with teachers and classmates, new learning conditions and increased workload.
SELF-EDUCATIONAL ACTIVITY IN THE STUDENT AGE AS AN INDICATOR OF MENTAL WELL-BEING OF PERSONALITY
Authors: Martyniuk Iryna А. , Papathanasiou Ioanna V. , Fradelos Evangelos C.
Published: January 2022

The aim: The aim of the article is to highlight the results of an experimental study of the indicators of students’ mental health depending on their involvement in self-educational activities.
Materials and methods: We conducted a comparative experimental research. There was a block of questionnaires, which required to choose one of the answers offered in the list and evaluate it on a given scale. The research collected data on respondents’ self-educational activities and indicators of their mental health: meaningfulness of life, reflexivity, internal motivation for learning, stress resistance, components of self-actualization.
Results: Respondents engaged in self-educational activities in the profession they acquire have significantly higher rates of internal motivation for learning, time orientation and autonomy than respondents who are not engaged in self-educational activities. Respondents engaged in self-educational activities which are not related to the profession they acquire have significantly higher rates of internal motivation for learning, time orientation, cognition and creativity needs than non-self-educated respondents.
Conclusions: The research helps us to understand the progress of students’ mental well-being. The results of the research help to find the ways of providing the mental health to students. In particular, encouragement of students’ self-educational activities will help to improve the mental well-being of their personality.
COVID-19 PANDEMIC LIFESTYLE: STUDENTS MENTAL HEALTH CHALLENGES
Authors: Boiko Iryna I. , Herus Olha I. , Klymanska Larysa D. , Savka Victor Y. , Klos Liliia Y. , Shkoliar Mariana V. , Vitale Valentina
Published: January 2022

The aim: To determine how quarantine restrictions affect the lifestyle of Ukrainian students, and their mental health.
Materials and methods: 37 student essays were submitted to the university contest held at Lviv Polytechnic University in May-June 2020. They were analyzed with the help of qualitative thematic analysis and standard qualitative analysis method. Essays are focused on a list of issues important for assessing the social well-being of students during quarantine. Each fragment of essay’s answer was coded into the data matrix system according to either multiple or single themes, built in the statements. The thematic analysis identified several categories that determine students’ attitude to the pandemic situation and its consequences for them.
Results: It is determined that students’ lifestyle, including study and leisure, has changed significantly, which has affected their mental health. Learning online provoked a number of emotional disorders. At the same time, the desire for communication in person and self-improvement increased. «Quarantine lessons» were divided into categories: challenges, threats and opportunities. Threats and challenges were considered at the global level, while opportunities affected rather the personal level.
Conclusions: Mental health of students disorders: anxiety, restlessness, fear, self-doubt, feelings of loneliness, panic, sleep disturbances, and increased fatigue indicate the negative effects of the pandemic. At the same time, recording such facts as the feeling of satisfaction from communication with loved ones, the ability to help them, the desire for self-improvement, etc. allows to say about the positive effects.
EMOTIONAL POTENTIAL IN THE CHILDREN’S TEAM
Authors: Svatenkova Tatiana I. , Svatenkov Alexander V.
Published: January 2022

The aim: To investigate the group psychological work influence on the children emotional intelligence development and the processes of psychological stability and cohesion in a sport team.
Materials and methods: We used the comprehensive diagnosis of the child’s personality and status in the group (n=622). The main accent was made on the level of emotional intelligence (EQ) and sociometric status of the child. The main hypothesis: the higher the child`s EQ level, the higher its sociometric status. The standard PASW Statistics method was used to process the statistics.
Results: Sociometric tests: 223 children had a low sociometric status (36%); 242 – satisfactory and within the norm limits (39%), 75 – above the average (12%), and only 81 had a high sociometric status (13%). The EQ level indicators (integrative level): 317 respondents had a low EQ level (51%); 218 – the average level (35%) and only 87 respondents had a high EI level (14%).
Conclusions: The hypothesis is confirmed. After the implementation of the author’s program for adaptation and the child emotional intelligence development, we have results: Sociometric test: only 56 children have lower sociometric status (9%); 144 – satisfactory and average (23%); 223 – above average (36%) and 199 – high sociometric status (32%). EQ level (integrative level), we also have positive changes: only 111 respondents remained with a low level of emotional intelligence (18%); 386 developed the level of emotional intelligence to the average (62%) and 125 had a high level of emotional intelligence (20%).
YOUTH HEALTH MANAGEMENT SPHERE
Authors: Kononchuk Antonina I. , Svatenkov Alexander V. , Svatenkova Tatiana I. , Kononchuk Danylo I. , Waltz Mitzi
Published: January 2022

The aim: To study the youth awareness level in the health field; to create a youth health center model.
Materials and methods: An extensive literary review of relevant articles and youth health research reports for the period 2009-2020, was performed using Medline, PubMed and Google Scholar databases, with the following key words: “Ukrainian youth health state”, “number of chronically ill among Ukrainian youth”, “bad habits spread in the Ukrainian youth environment”, “youth for a healthy lifestyle”. We used a descriptive cross-sectional survey with open-ended and closed-ended questions about attitude to a healthy lifestyle (n = 688).
Results: Youth consider the health as the most comprehensive definition, which is enshrined in the scientific literature (67,7%). Family remains the most influential social institution for young people today. Unemployment, low medical care level and high HIV/AIDS rates are the most important health concerns.
Conclusions: Influencing the safe behavior formation factors is defined, the young people attitude the healthy lifestyle and the mentioned factors have been described. The model of the Youth Health Support and Conservation Centre is presented.
CITIZENS OBTAINING PSYCHOSOCIAL SUPPORT DURING THE COVID-19 PANDEMIC IN UKRAINE: A CROSS-SECTIONAL STUDY
Authors: Tytarenko Tetiana M. , Dvornyk Maryna S. , Larina Tetiana O. , Myronchak Kateryna V. , Savinov Volodymyr V. , Hundertaylo Julia D. , Vella Giuseppe
Published: January 2022

The aim: To investigate the obtaining of psychosocial support by citizens during the COVID-19 pandemic in Ukraine using a cross-sectional study assessing the socio-demographic characteristics of the respondents.
Materials and methods: It was developed and used the authors’ questionnaire “Socio-psychological support during the COVID-19 pandemic in Ukraine”. Data processing used Nonparametric Mann-Whitney analysis of variance and one-way Kruskal-Wallis analysis of variance (SPSS 26.0).
Results: The study was conducted from October 2020 to May 2021 and sampled 100 individuals. Significant differences in the studied features are revealed. Gender: women have a more prosperous and broader range of contacts to discuss fears and anxieties during quarantine; suffer more from emotional loss; have more need to be heard and to be taken care of, with no criticism; are more experienced in professional psychological help obtaining; communicate with internal migrants more often. Age: young respondents (19-24 y.o.) suffer more from pandemic losses in the areas of spirituality and friendship; however, more often and more effectively use the means of online psychological support; older respondents are more likely to receive support from an important community and through meditation. Living conditions: living alone, citizens experience more pandemic stress, suffer from losses in personal life and friendship, and consider participation in challenge activities as the most convenient form of support. Place of residence: living in the rural areas is associated with a narrow circle of citizens’ contacts to discuss their plans for leisure; more significant damage from pandemic losses in health; lack of support in the form of understanding themselves and their conditions. Education: higher education affects a broader circle of communication; more minor financial losses; willingness to share traumatic stories for art therapy. Financial satisfaction promotes the exchange of ideas between users of online psychological support.
Conclusions: The identified conditionality of psychosocial support obtaining by socio-demographic indicators can be used in the development of psychosocial support interventions during a pandemic for Ukrainian citizens by the public and private sectors, particularly in creating specialized smartphone applications, adapting playback theatre in the online space, creating gender-sensitive online programs to integrate IDPs into local communities.
ISSUES OF EMOTIONAL INSTABILITY IN THE CONTEXT OF STUDENTS’ EMOTIONAL HEALTH RESEARCH
Authors: Mykytyuk Oksana M. , Tiurina Tamara G. , Klymus Tereza M. , Kozak Marta Ya. , Yatsyshyn Ihor I. , Umanets Natalia А. , Hayduk Nina M.
Published: January 2022

The aim: The aim of the research was to investigate the issue of emotional health in the context of mental health of students, in particular, the emotional instability as a students' personal quality with regard to cognitive and empathic components.
Materials and methods: In a comparative analysis of the study, 104 3rd-year students of the Faculty of Management and Media Communications of the Ukrainian Academy of Printing, were divided into two groups on the basis of gender (group №1 – females; group №2 – males). In the study, undertaken in 2019-2020, two questionnaires, namely “Problems of Emotional Health” and “Assessment of Empathic Compassion”, drawn up by a team of authors, were used. The comparative analysis was carried out with the use of the Mann–Whitney U test.
Results: The study of emotional instability and competence in the context of the student's mental health allows us to conclude that the cognitive component is the basis that promotes the development of social, regulatory, and empathic components, and the latter is the main motivator of a person’s activity.
Conclusions: The research showed that high school students do not always have enough opportunities for independent formation and emotional competence development, and have problems with emotional instability. These problems may be solved by the introduction of the educational component, in particular: introducing relevant special courses into the educational process, conducting psychological training aimed at the development of emotional professional competence in the context of the formation of personality’s mental health.
SOCIAL TENSION AS A MACRO INDICATOR OF THE PSYCHOLOGICAL WELL-BEING OF SOCIETY
Authors: Slyusarevskyy Mykola M. , Chunikhina Svitlana , Flaherty Maureen
Published: January 2022

The aim: This article aims to determine the prospects of studying social tension as a macro indicator of the psychological well-being of society.
Materials and methods: A total of 1,200 respondents were included in face-to-face interviews: 548 men and 652 women. The sample represents Ukraine’s adult population at or above the age of 18. We used a 16-item questionnaire developed based on a theoretical model of necessary and sufficient indicators of social tension.
Results: This comprehensive study indicates that over the past 15 years, the national elections constituted the most significant factor in reducing social tensions in Ukraine, and the most potent stressor was the global financial crisis of 2008. Contrary to expectations, the COVID-19 pandemic has not provoked the rising social tension; rather, there has been a noticeable decrease. Based on empirical research data, the prospects of scaling the psychological well-being model of an individual to a broader social context are analyzed. In particular, the study of social tension makes it possible to identify and interpret the psychological effects associated with the projection of outwardly displaced individual reactions to complex social situations.
Conclusions: We explain how the social tension model can be applied as a macro indicator of psychological well-being at the level of a society. The prospects of creating more valid and reliable indicators of psychological well-being for any given socio-cultural, socio-economic, political context are also identified.
THE BONE-BRAIN AXIS? BIOPSYCHOSOCIAL ASPECTS OF ORTHOPEDICS AND A MENTAL WELLBEING ACTION PLAN IN MUSCULOSKELETAL CARE
Authors: Tsagkaris Christos , Papazoglou Andreas S. , Romash Iryna B. , Moysidis Dimitrios V. , Romash Ivan R. , Gabunia Luiza , Gorbatiuk Taras
Published: January 2022

The aim: To review the biopsychosocial aspects of psychiatric comorbidity in patients with musculoskeletal conditions and recommend a relevant mental health action plan.
Materials and methods: Keywords (orthopedics, psychiatry, mental health) were used to list down and analyze the literature in PubMed and Google Scholar. All types of articles, including original research, systematic reviews, and meta-analyses, along with gray literature dating back to 2000. We excluded studies reporting a significant conflict of interest and findings dispersed through popular media instead of peer-reviewed journals.
Conclusions: The biopsychosocial aspects of the “bone – brain axis” need to be better addressed by means of a pragmatic approach involving all concerned parties and acknowledging the challenges and limitations along the way.
USE OF THE HEROIC JOURNEY NARRATIVE IN THE DIAGNOSTIC INTERVIEW AND TREATMENT WITH FAMILIES OF CHILDREN WITH SPECIAL NEEDS
Authors: Itskovich Galina , Shopsha Elena , Fedosova Liudmyla
Published: January 2022

The aim: To explore and corroborate personal and family narratives within the framework of “heroic journey”, delineate function of the narrative in the diagnosis and treatment of families of children with special needs, and to describe the process of improving psychological well-being of these families.
Materials and methods: The study material consisted of articles on the subject found in American and international databases (Springer, Thompson ISI’s Web of Science, Scopus and PsycINFO, Google Scholar), using keywords “family and child psychotherapy”, “heroic journey”, “differentially able”, “attachment”, “narrative”, “therapeutic storytelling”. Two case vignettes, parents of a) a special-needs adult and b) a pre-teen psychotherapeutic patient, illustrate application of the heroic journey narrative in psychotherapeutic treatment.
Conclusions: Formation of the narrative identity is simultaneously the ends and the means: while a parent is encouraged to tell the story repeatedly over time, a new narrative identity emerges. Purpose, roles, patterns, and the structure of the storytelling process are outlined. Increased coherence of the family stories leads to strengthening attachment patterns. Using personal and family narratives for the purpose of diagnosis and treatment; incorporating and interpreting stories told in treatment can become a useful tool in the clinicians’ toolbox.
ENSURING THE CITIZENS’ RIGHTS AND FREEDOMS IN CASE OF COVID-19 VACCINATIO IN THE PUBLIC HEALTH SYSTEM
Authors: Gutorova Nataliya , Pashkov Vitalii , Kaganovska Tetyana
Published: January 2022

The aim: To study the legal and regulatory framework for ensuring the right to health of patients depending on the legal status of coronavirus vaccines in different countries as an essential element influencing the right to public health and other rights of citizens.
Materials and methods: In this paper, we study the legal norms and scientific positions on the above issue using generalized information from scientific journals that use scientific methods from a medical and legal point of view. This article is based on dialectical, comparative, analytical, synthetic, and complex research methods. Using the above methods, we studied the attitudes of different categories of citizens to vaccination against coronavirus disease through questionnaires on the following issues: attitudes to vaccination in general; motivation for vaccination, in case of consent to vaccination; reasons for refusal of vaccination. The case-law of the European Court of Human Rights on vaccination and ensuring the rights of citizens to health care was also analyzed.
Results: Proper legal regulation of the right to health depending on the legal status of the vaccines is important in order to implement restrictive measures to combat COVID-19 and, accordingly, to prevent the possible spread of a pandemic in the public health system.
Conclusions: Ensuring the right to health and applying restrictive measures to prevent the spread of a pandemic is an essential element of the public health system. However, the question of the legal status of vaccines is crucial to prevent the spread of the disease. That is, it is essential to go through all the stages of clinical trials for the vaccines used. Their safety and effectiveness and proving the fact that the harm of vaccination is much less than the harm of the spread of coronavirus disease. In the process of ensuring the right to health, including by making compulsory vaccination against COVID-19, legal framework and practice are critical components that aim to minimize the potential hazards that threaten the health and lives of the population.
MORTALITY AND INJURY IN UKRAINE AS A RESULT OF TRAFFIC ACCIDENTS IN MEASURING OF PUBLIC HEALTH: TO THE ANALYSIS OF SOCIAL– LEGAL AND CRIMINOLOGICAL PROBLEM
Authors: Batyrgareieva Vladyslava S. , Shramko Sabriie S. , Samoilova Olena M.
Published: January 2022

The aim: Based on the statistics study of the consequences of road accidents for human potential of Ukraine and quantitative indicators of criminal offenses in the field of road safety for the period 2016-2021, as well as assessing the risks to public health of Ukrainian society to carry out socio-legal and criminological analysis of the problem and identify key areas of the national approach to the implementation of the tasks of the Second Decade of Action to ensure road safety (2021-2030).
Materials and methods: The study is based on the results of a survey of ordinary citizens of Ukraine on the state of road safety on the roads of Ukraine; information posted on the WHO website for 2009-2020; statistical reports of Ukrainian law enforcement agencies, specialized literature on law, etc. The methodological basis of the research is dialectical, comparative, logical, analytical, synthetic, statistical, and concrete-sociological research methods.
Results: In Ukraine, among adolescents and young people at the age of 15-24, the first and main cause of death from external circumstances is death in an accident. Among young people aged 25-29 years, this is the second leading cause of death (after suicide). Every third child, being in the status of passengers, dies due to the fault of relatives and friends. One-third of all victims are pedestrians. It is estimated that Ukraine lost more than USD 308 million in GDP as a result of the deaths of road accident victims in 2020.
Conclusions: In Ukraine, road accidents are a significant cause of death and disability due to external circumstances, and therefore pose a threat to the public health of the population. The death and disability of people as a result of road accidents cause huge material and human losses to Ukraine. An unsatisfactory state of legal awareness of Ukrainian citizens is a direct threat to public health and a source of the perpetuation of the generally unfavorable trend with the level of criminally punished violations of traffic rules. An important task of the Ukrainian state is to create a service of emergency specialized care according to world standards of so-called disaster medicine.
MEDICAL CONFIDENTIALITY DISCLOSURE IN CONDITIONS OF EPIDEMIC THREATS
Authors: Mykhailichenko Tetiana O. , Horpyniuk Oksana P. , Rak Victor Yu.
Published: January 2022

The aim: To establish public opinion on the limits of medical confidentiality in an epidemic and the widespread use of applications that contain personal data, including those regarding health, to understand the possibility of changing the paradigm of public policy to protect medical confidentiality in an exacerbation of the epidemic situation.
Materials and methods: This research is based on regulatory acts, scientific articles, and opinions of both medical workers and ordinary citizens of Poland, Germany, and Ukraine, judicial practice, doctrinal ideas, and views on this issue. Such methods as dialectical, comparative, analytic, synthetic, comprehensive, statistical, and generalization.
Results: the results of a survey of residents of Poland, Germany, and Ukraine showed that one of the pandemic consequences was that a significant number of respondents were willing to partially renounce the right to medical confidentiality in the face of exacerbating epidemic threats to reduce the number of infected.
Conclusions: In the face of the SARS-Cov-2 virus, nations worldwide have faced the challenge of respecting the right to privacy, particularly in terms of medical confidentiality. Virtual methods of patient communication with healthcare professionals use mobile electronic services (applications), and other new technologies in the context of the COVID-19 pandemic have exacerbated the issue of understanding the boundaries of medical confidentiality and personal data protection. In order to maintain an effective balance between human rights and public health, the mass collection and storage of sensitive personal data must take place following the Regulation of the European Parliament and of the Council on the protection of natural persons with regard to the processing of personal data and on the free movement of such data. At the same time, it is expedient to recommend states to specify specific provisions of this Regulation in order to avoid an expanded interpretation of certain of its provisions.
CORRUPTION BETWEEN DOCTORS AND PHARMACISTS: CRIMINAL LAW PROBLEMS OF COUNTERACTION
Authors: Marin Oleksandr K. , Sen Iryna Z.
Published: January 2022

The aim: To draw the attention of the scientific community to the problem of corruption between doctors and pharmacists and to find out the available possibilities to counteract it via criminal law measures.
Materials and methods: The sources of this research include international legal acts and Ukrainian legislation; official reports of law enforcement agencies of Ukraine and other countries; NGO “Transparency International” studies; media materials; the results of a survey conducted using the Google Forms service; reports of the Accounting Chamber of Ukraine; judicial statistics data and materials of judicial practice in Ukraine, as well as special anti-corruption studies of Ukrainian and foreign scholars. The main methods used in the study are the legal-dogmatic method, the method of extrapolation, some methods of formal logic and open-source analysis of law-enforcement practice, as well as the survey method.
Results: The problem of corrupt relationships between doctors and pharmacists is urgent both in Ukraine and abroad, and accordingly, requires an adequate legal assessment. Ukraine has the necessary criminal law tools to combat this negative phenomenon but uses them ineffectively.
Conclusions: A corrupt relationship between a doctor and a pharmacist may occur at three levels. Corrupt forms of unlawful interaction between medical and pharmaceutical workers at all these levels are covered by the existing norms of the Criminal Code of Ukraine; there is no need to single out a special norm that would reflect the corrupt relationship between a doctor and a pharmacist.
PENALIZATION OF NON-COMPLIANCE WITH THE COVID-19 VACCINATION: TO BE OR NOT TO BE?
Authors: Denkovych Olha I. , Markin Viktor I. , Shevchenko Snizhana V.
Published: January 2022

The aim: This paper is aimed to identify criteria with regard to which government should evaluate whether criminal penalties for non-compliance with the Covid-19 vaccination can be envisaged and reveal the community’s attitude to support such criminalization.
Materials and methods: This research is based on the analysis of the case-law of the European Court of Human Rights, Supreme Court of the US, and Supreme Court of Ukraine; statistical database, in particular of the World Health Organization and survey of 100 Ukrainian residents. During the research of the stated issue systematic method, formal-legal method, comparative method and case study method were used.
Results: In total 100 respondents participated in the survey, of which 27 (27 %) are health care workers (17 doctors, 9 nurses and 1 medical registrar). 39 % of respondents supported the mandatory vaccination against Covid-19 for adults and 21 % have not yet decided. Almost the same results pertain to the compulsory vaccination of doctors and representatives of other target groups (retired, teachers, etc.) (supported by 52 % and 48 % respectively). By contrast, the compulsory Covid-19 vaccination of minors was supported only by 20 % respondents.
Conclusions: The international human rights law provides grounds to impose mandatory vaccination to control the spreading of Covid-19. Such vaccination constitutes the intervention with the right to physical integrity and can be justified only when it is clearly provided by law, pursue the legitimate aim of the protection of public health, and is necessary for a democratic society. This survey highlights the need to critically evaluate the implementation of non-compliance penalties to determine their effectiveness. Despite the well-recognized efficiency of the vaccination against Covid-19, society is still hesitant whether a mandate for such vaccination should be delivered and more reluctantly accepts other containment measures. Criminal penalties for non-compliance with Covid-19 vaccination are consistently opposed by society that pertains to the historical background on vaccination policy in a certain country.
CARGOCULTISM OF PSYCHIATRIC CARE IN CUSTODY
Authors: Yanovska Oleksandra G. , Chugaevska Alyona V. , Ivanov Mykhailo S.
Published: January 2022

The aim: To analyze the features of the realization mechanism of the persons’ rights who have become ill with a mental illness and are in the detention of adequate (equivalent) medical care.
Materials and methods: A set of general and special methods of scientific knowledge were used. The study’s empirical basis consists of international acts and standards in the field of health care, statistics of the United Kingdom, France, the United States, some countries in Eastern Europe and Central Asia, reports of international organizations, the case-law of the European Court of Human Rights. The study also used the personal experience of one of the co-authors as a lawyer for more than 20 years and 4 years as a judge of the Supreme Court.
Results: The conducted research gives grounds to state that for the last few decades the problem of receiving psychiatric care in conditions of imprisonment remains relevant. This situation is partly due to the fact that the certain standards’ content is subject to clarification, as it is contained in optional international instruments or is given some understanding solely through the practice of the ECHR. Given the implementation of the prisoners’ right of access to psychiatric care is entrusted primarily to penitentiary institution’s administration, attention should be paid to methodological, material, and staffing of their work while introducing maximum openness of psychiatric care’s algorithms to prisoners and facilitating access to legal aid for the mentally ill.
Conclusions: Creating external attributes of mechanisms to ensure the convicts’ right to psychiatric care, the relevant national mechanisms do not take into account the specifics of the detained persons’ legal status. Such a superficial imitation of the system of guarantees of the prisoners’ rights to medical care is a kind of cargo cultism of public institutions, which is designed to provide non-discriminatory conditions for the realization of the right to health care for all categories of the population.
VICTIMOLOGICAL RISKS FOR ROAD USERS AS AN ELEMENT OF PUBLIC HEALTH
Authors: Batyrgareieva Vladyslava S. , Kalinina Alina V. , Poltava Kateryna O.
Published: January 2022

The aim: This article aims to analyze the statistics of road accidents victims in Ukraine in general and the level of criminal offenses’ against traffic safety and transport operation victims, in particular, to consider the main victimological risks for road users and provide them with a public health approach.
Materials and methods: The theoretical basis of the article is specialized literature on law, economics, and sociology. The empirical basis of the research was the materials of generalization of more than 1,000 criminal proceedings under Art. 286 of the Criminal Code of Ukraine, the results of a survey of Ukrainian citizens on the state of road safety in Ukraine.
Results: According to the results of an empirical study, in terms of role, pedestrians clearly predominate among the victims (59.6%), while every fourth victim is a passenger of a vehicle. Driver victims are only 14.6% of the total number. Victimological risk on the roads is the probability of becoming a victim and suffering damage to one’s life and health from criminal offenses against traffic safety and operation of transport. For each of the categories of victims there are both general and specific victimological risks. The causes of accidents can be grouped by the source of danger in the triangle “person – mechanism – road”.
Conclusions: The most dangerous and widespread victimological risks for road users in Ukraine are speeding and maneuvering, drunk driving, parking violations, poor road infrastructure, physiological and psychological characteristics of road users, low professional skills of drivers, etc.
DEPRIVATION OF REPRODUCTIVE RIGHT OF SEX OFFENDERS: SOCIAL OPINION AND LEGISLATIVE REGULATION
Authors: Iemelianenko Volodymyr V. , Gornostay Alesia V. , Yevdokimova Olena V.
Published: January 2022

The aim: The purpose of this article is to illustrate the social demand for the need to discriminate against perpetrators of sexual crimes by depriving them of reproductive rights.
Materials and methods: The authors of the research used the legislation of various world countries, scientific papers, caselaw, the provisions of international legal acts, in particular, the Convention for the Protection of Human Rights and Fundamental Freedoms. The authors of the research used a complex set of general and special methods of cognition such as dialectical, comparative, analytical, generalization method, statistical and sociological method (questionnaire method).
Results: The survey conducted by the authors highlights the attitude of physicians and law enforcement officials (100 people) to the sterilization of criminals as a measure necessary to prevent the commission of sexual crimes both by such persons and by others who are prone to committing such crimes but will refrain from their commission due to the fear of sterilization. The questionnaire shows the gap between awareness and recognition of natural human rights such as the right to reproduce and the desire to deprive a certain deviant category of people of this right for their safety.
Conclusion: Based on the conducted analysis, the authors have formulated that there is currently a great social demand for radical measures to prevent the commission of sexual crimes by sterilizing those who committed such crimes. At the same time, the legislation of some countries also embodies such a desire of society in the relevant norms and provides the use of sterilization of criminals for special and general prevention of crimes against sexual freedom and inviolability. The research also demonstrates the erroneousness of this approach and proves the inadmissibility and medical inexpediency of depriving perpetrators of sexual crimes of their reproductive rights.
EPIDEMIOLOGIC ACTIVITIES IN THE MODERN CRIMEA: HUMANITARIAN CHALLENGES AND POSSIBLE SOLUTIONS
Authors: Babin Borys V. , Chvaliuk Andrii M. , Plotnikov Olexiy V.
Published: January 2022

The aim of this article is to determine the current organisational and normative policies in Crimea concerning epidemiology, in conditions of seven years of Russian effective control over the Peninsula and ongoing COVID-19 pandemic.
Materials and methods: The authors analysed the normative acts, budget and governing practice regarding to the current challenges for epidemiologic activities in Crimea, issued by international structures, by the Ukrainian bodies and Russian de-facto “authorities”, comparing the ongoing situation to the international obligations of both conflicting states.
Conclusions: The research proves that a systematic medical crisis, caused by Russia’s efforts aimed at establishment of its own control over Crimea, resulted in new challenges in COVID-19 pandemic conditions. It is further argued that the activities of the Anti-Plague Station located in Simferopol require attention and relevant international action. States and international organisations with the relevant mandate must pay more attention to the epidemiologic issues in Crimean Peninsula, especially in the framework of the Convention on the Prohibition of the Development, Production and Stockpiling of Bacteriological (Biological) and Toxin Weapons and on their Destruction (1972) mechanisms. A new international treaty for pandemic preparedness and response must reflect specific features of interstate conflict situations and illegal occupation of a foreign territory with effective control over its population.
FALSIFICATION OF MEDICINES AND DISTRIBUTION OF FALSIFIED MEDICINES IN UKRAINE: CRIMINALISTIC MEANS OF DETECTION AND COUNTERACTION
Authors: Shevchuk Viktor M. , Parfylo Ihor V. , Sokolenko Mykyta O.
Published: January 2022

The aim: To formulate criminalistic recommendations to increase the effectiveness of combating falsification and contribution of falsified medicines. To accomplish analyze of the current state and trends in combating this criminal offense, to create the basis of criminalistic characteristics and methods of their investigation, taking into account the results of the generalization of judicial investigative practice and foreign experience.
Materials and methods: The examine and analysis of results and generalization of 128 criminal proceedings of such criminal offenses, court decisions for the period 2012- 2020; questionnaires of practical workers (205 people); results of generalization and analysis of published materials of investigative and judicial practice; foreign experience in combating falsification of medicines, etc. In the process of conducting this research, general scientific and special research methods were also used.
Results: Based on the results of the generalization of investigative and judicial practice, a criminalistic description of falsification and contribution of falsified medicines in the form of descriptive and statistical information model has been developed, its elemental composition was determined and analysed. Reasonable that in theoretical terms criminalistic characteristics are the basis for building appropriate criminalistic methods, and in practical terms is considered as a kind of guideline that can be successfully used by investigators in the conduct of specific criminal proceedings, which allows choosing the most effective directions and means of investigation.
Conclusions: One of the priority areas of research in criminalistics is the development of criminalistic characteristics and basics of investigation methods of falsification and contribution of falsified medicines, which must be carried out on the basis of the modern general theory of criminalistics, current legislation and practice, results of generalizationand analysis of investigator of judicial practice and foreign experience.
COVID 19-RELATED STIGMATIZATION: A HUMAN RIGHTS-BASED APPROACH
Authors: Vitvitskyi Serhiy S. , Liubchenko Marianna I. , Liubchenko Oleksii O.
Published: January 2022

The aim: The article attempts to analyze what are legal responses to such Covid-19 related challenge like stigmatization.
Materials and methods: Given the specifics of the topic and goals, during the writing of the article were used methods of terminological research of the phenomena “stigma”, “stigmatization”, comparative method, formal-legal method (in the study of international documents). The following materials were used to reveal the topic: scientific papers (articles, book chapters, analytical materials, reports, etc.), international legal acts, court decisions (decisions of the European Court of Human Rights, decisions of the US Supreme Court, decisions of national courts of different countries).
Conclusions: More than a year after the spread start of Covid-19, it has become clear that in addition to the extremely catastrophic impact on human health and life, the pandemic, as well as the resulting quarantine restrictions, have profound and sometimes radical social consequences. Stigmatization of based on their infection with Covid-19 (including possible) has become one of these. The current international human rights framework allows for the assessment of such processes according to its standards. Implications of dignity and privacy as the highest social values pave the way to finding legal mechanisms to protect people who are carriers of a disease from being stigmatized. This is demonstrated by the legal justifications developed by the courts – the ECtHR as supranational and national Supreme and federal courts, which have been the subject of analysis within this article.
REALIZATION OF HUMAN RIGHTS DURING THE PANDEMIC OF COVID-19
Authors: Baliuk Viktor M. , Ostapenko Iuliia I. , Grynko Larysa P.
Published: January 2022

The aim: The purpose of the article is to analyse the state of compliance with human rights during the introduction measures by different countries to combat the rapid spread of the pandemic of Covid-19.
Materials and methods: This research based on Kazakh, Hungarian, Ukrainian, Georgian, UK, Azerbaijan, German, French, Indian, Chinese, South African, Brazilian scientific publications. Additionally, were used statistics, expert opinions, doctrinal ideas and reviews. Besides, in the research process to achieve the goal, a complex of general scientific and special methods of cognition was used, in particular, the comparative legal method, the system and structural method, the method of generalization, the method of analysis and synthesis.
Conclusions: Response measures taken by countries during the Covid-19 period, which cause changes in the legal regulation of public relations, their validity and focus on achieving the goal of protection, must be based on democratic principles, human rights restrictions must be appropriate to the threat and must be justified the limits of intervention.
VACCINATION IN THE SYSTEM OF HUMAN RIGHTS AND OBLIGATIONS: IMPACT OF THE COVID-19 PANDEMIC
Authors: Horodovenko Viktor V. , Udovyka Larysa G. , Shekhovtsova Tatiana О.
Published: January 2022

The aim: To identify the problems and prospects of introducing mandatory vaccination against COVID-19 in the context of respect for human and civil rights and freedoms based on generalization and systematization of foreign experience in implementing such measures.
Materials and methods: In the research, we applied a complex of philosophical and ideological approaches, general scientific and special methods of scientific cognition, in particular civilizational and axiological approaches as well as dialectical, dogmatic, comparative, and statistical methods. The empirical basis of the study is represented by the statistical data of the healthcare sector of European countries, generalization of the practice of vaccination. In the study, we use international and European regulatory legal acts and documents in the field of human rights, national legislation of foreign countries.
Conclusions: Vaccination represents an important component of the fundamental right to health. International legal acts on the human rights regulation, in particular the right to health, do not provide an unambiguous answer to the question of whether vaccination is the right or responsibility of a person, which has resulted in the existence of a wide range of vaccination policies and models. The existence of a wide range of policies and practices in States Parties to the Convention makes permissible the application of more imperative approaches to immunization, in particular, in cases where voluntary vaccination is not sufficient to ensure the threshold of herd immunity. In most countries, vaccination against COVID-19 is carried out voluntarily, whereas the complication of the epidemiological situation has resulted in following the path of introducing mandatory vaccination in some countries, both with regard to certain population categories (France, Greece, Russia, Ukraine) and the entire population (Tajikistan, Turkmenistan).
IMPACT OF EPIDEMIOLOGICAL SITUATION ON RESPECT FOR HUMAN RIGHTS AND FREEDOMS: INFORMATIONAL ASPECT
Authors: Shul’ha Mariya G. , Mazur Anatoliy V. , Georgiievskyi Iurii V.
Published: January 2022

The aim: To study an impact of the epidemiological situation on enforcement of the rights and freedoms in global informational space at international, regional, and national levels (by the example of the Republic of Poland and Ukraine).
Materials and methods: This research is based on empirical and analytical data of WHO, conventional norms on protection of rights and freedoms, anti-epidemic legislation of Ukraine and the Republic of Poland, reports of European and international institutions on human rights. Over 100 sources of information have been discovered, including regulatory legal acts, academic papers. Dialectical, comparative, analytical, synthesis, system analysis methods have been applied.
Conclusion: The priority of human rights and freedoms over the public interest in the fight against the previously unknown and rapidly spreading coronavirus while delivering medical care – is a paradigm that seems to be reconsidered under “syndemic” conditions in connection with “infodemic”. Epidemiological situation and human rights are interdependent in a globalized world. Channels of formal and informal informing, as well as objective, current, full enough information content, make a “person–state” communication effective. During a pandemic, regional and international communication must be complete and regular.