Rights from health insurance in the Republic of Serbia (1922-2015)

In the jurisdiction of modern States a significant role belongs to health legislation or the legislation that regulates the field of health care and health insurance. The aim of this work is to making the display content of patient rights in the field of health insurance in the Republic of Serbia in the period from 1922 (the Act on the insurance of workers) till today. We analyzed: the law on insurance of employees from 1922, law on the implementation of social insurance in the area of Democratic Federal Yugoslavia from 1945, the law on social insurance of workers, public employees and officials from 1946, the law on social insurance of workers and employees and their families from 1950, the law on health insurance of workers and employees from 1954, the regulation on the funds for mutual aid from 1956, the law on establishing the health insurance of farmers from 1959, Health Insurance Act from 1962, General Law on Health Insurance and obligatory forms of health care for the population from 1969, Law on Health Insurance and obligatory forms of health care for the population from 1970, Law on health care from 1979, the law on health care from 1990, the law on health insurance from 1992, the law on health insurance from 2005. Reform of the health care system is a continuous and in advance well­designed process, supported by health legislation.