Ihor Diorditsa - Department of Private and Public LawKyiv National University of Technologies and Design
Kateryna Katerynchuk - Department of Private and Public LawKyiv National University of Technologies and Design
Sergiy Kyrenko - Department of LawKyiv National Linguistic University
Iryna Vasylkivska - Department of Constitutional, Administrative and Criminal LawKyiv National Economic University named after Vadym Hetman
Olha Bespal - Department of Constitutional, Administrative and Criminal LawKyiv National Economic University named after Vadym Hetman

Aims. The purpose of the article is to consider the problematic issues of forming an understanding of such concepts as "health", "pain" and "suffering". Methods. A set of general scientific and special methods was used in the work: dialectical, dogmatic, hermeneutic, comparative legal method, statistic and sociological method. Findings. Considered the category of "health" in various humanities, compared the characteristics of "physical pain" and "physical and moral suffering" as possible consequences of criminal offenses that harm the health of the individual. Conclusion. The research of such problematic issues allowed to develop of a unified approach to understanding of such concepts as “health”, “pain” and “suffering”, this, in turn, will make possible to unify legislation in this area.  

Criminal offence, Health, Damage to health, Torture, Pain, Suffering