Máté Ju lesz, Ph.D., Sci en ti fic Re se ar cher Uni ver sity of Sze ged Me di cal Fa culty In si tu te for Fo ren sic Me di ci ne ma te.ju lesz@fre e mail.hu THE CON STI TU TI O NAL RIGHT TO HE ALTH IN HUN GARY Ab stract:In Hun gary, the right to he alth is im plied in the Fun da men tal Law of 2011. The le gal hi story of the con sti tu ti o nal right to he alth in Hun gary da tes back to 1949, alt ho ugh this was pre ce ded by an ear li er as sump tion of so cial hu man rights. The Hun ga rian con sti tu ti o nal right to he alth im pli es the most im por tant no ti o nal ele ments of the hu man right to he alth. One can see that the com mu nist type of con sti tu ti o nal right to he alth lar gely dif fers from the right to he alth un der a de moc ra tic ru le of law. The Hun ga rian Con sti tu tion of 1949 and the Con sti tu tion of the De moc ra tic Pe o ple's Re pu blic of Ko rea cur rently in for ce re flect a 19 th-century so cial hu man rights con cep tion. In pre sent-day Hun gary, the re is no ro om for a si mi lar un der stan ding. Hun gary's pre sent con sti tu ti o nal he alth law is sha ped ac cor ding to the ne eds of a so ci ety wit hin a free mar ket eco nomy. Keywords: the right to he alth, con sti tu ti o nal va lu es, hu man rights, the Hunga rian Fun da men tal Law of 2011, the cor pus of the hu man right to he alth.