Abstract:
This article aims to substantiate the impact of socio-economic labor protection for healthcare
professionals based on developing legislative regulations in some OECD and EAEU countries and
identifying their relationship with the efficiency of healthcare systems. The methodology includes
general scientific methods (systemic analysis, synthesis, comparison, abstraction, induction,
deduction, and modeling) and special research methods (formal logical, structural, and functional).
The results of international rankings evaluating healthcare systems were used to determine the list
of states for comparative legal analysis. Also, empirical methods were used: meetings, questionnaire
surveys, and interviews held in 2021 with medical and pharmaceutical workers in Kazakhstan. The
research results showed that states with special labor regulations for medical and pharmaceutical
personnel occupy stable leading positions in international rankings regarding healthcare evaluation.
On the other hand, based on the example of the EAEU countries with an insufficient level of
specialization in labor regulation for these categories of workers, some states occupy weak positions
in similar international ratings. This paper is novel because previously, there was no debate in the
literature justifying the finding that specifics in the labor regulation of medical and pharmaceutical
staff, along with other factors, influence the healthcare system's efficiency and development.
