Legal basis: People's Republic of China (PRC) Law on the Prevention and Control of Infectious Diseases.
Article 1 This Law is formulated for the purpose of preventing, controlling and eliminating the occurrence and prevalence of infectious diseases and safeguarding human health and public health.
Article 2 The State implements the policy of putting prevention first, combining prevention with control, classified management, relying on science and relying on the masses in the prevention and control of infectious diseases.
The principles of health protection, prevention first, social health protection and patient autonomy.
Legal basis:
People's Republic of China (PRC) Basic Medical Care and Health Promotion Law
Article 2 This Law applies to medical treatment, health promotion and supervision and management activities.
Article 3 Medical and health undertakings shall adhere to the people-oriented principle and serve people's health.
Medical and health undertakings should adhere to the principle of public welfare.
Article 4 The state and society respect and protect citizens' right to health.
The state implements the strategy of healthy China, popularizes healthy life, optimizes health services, improves health protection, builds a healthy environment, develops health industries, and improves the health level of citizens throughout their life cycle.
The state establishes a health education system to protect citizens' right to health education and improve citizens' health literacy.
Article 5 Citizens have the right to obtain basic medical and health services provided by the state and society according to law.
The state establishes a basic medical and health system, establishes and improves a medical and health service system, and guarantees and realizes citizens' right to obtain basic medical and health services.
Article 6 People's governments at all levels should give priority to people's health, integrate health concepts into all policies, adhere to prevention first, improve the health promotion system, organize the implementation of health promotion plans and actions, promote national fitness, establish a health impact assessment system, and incorporate the improvement of citizens' main health indicators into the government target responsibility assessment.