Sumário:The right to health in the system of human rights and freedoms contained in the 1950 Convention for the Protection of Human Rights and Fundamental Freedoms and its Protocols -- Some aspects of modern bioethics : the individual’s right to reliable information in the paradigm of Article 8 of the Convention for the Protection of Human Rights and Fundamental Freedoms and features of EU legislation -- Legal positions of the ECtHR on the obligations of Council of Europe member states to protect the right to health -- Problems of correlation between an individual’s right to personal freedom and integrity and public health interests.