Article 1 This Law is formulated in accordance with the Constitution for the purpose of developing medical and health undertakings, ensuring citizens to enjoy basic medical and health services, improving citizens' health level and promoting the construction of a healthy China.
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.
The whole society should care about and support the development of medical and health undertakings.
Seventh the State Council and local people's governments at all levels shall lead the work of medical care and health promotion.
The competent department of health in the State Council is responsible for the overall coordination of national medical care and health promotion. Other relevant departments in the State Council are responsible for medical care and health promotion within their respective functions and duties.
The health authorities of local people's governments at or above the county level shall be responsible for the overall coordination of medical care and health promotion within their respective administrative areas. Other relevant departments of the local people's governments at or above the county level shall be responsible for the relevant medical and health promotion work within the scope of their respective duties.
Article 8 The State strengthens basic medical research, encourages medical scientific and technological innovation, supports the development of clinical medicine, promotes the transformation and application of medical scientific and technological achievements, promotes the integrated development of medical and health care and information technology, popularizes appropriate medical and health technologies, and improves the quality of medical and health services.
The state develops medical education, improves the medical education system that meets the needs of the development of medical and health undertakings, and vigorously cultivates medical and health talents.
Article 9 The state vigorously develops the cause of Chinese medicine, adheres to the principle of attaching equal importance to both Chinese and Western medicine and combining inheritance with innovation, and gives full play to the unique role of Chinese medicine in medical and health undertakings.
Article 10 The state focuses on the grass roots, rationally plans and allocates medical and health resources, and adopts various measures to give priority to supporting the development of medical and health institutions below the county level and improve their medical and health service capabilities.
Article 11 The state shall increase financial input into medical and health undertakings, and give priority to supporting the development of medical and health undertakings in old revolutionary base areas, ethnic minority areas, border areas and economically underdeveloped areas by increasing transfer payments.
Article 12 The state encourages and supports citizens, legal persons and other organizations to participate in medical and health undertakings by organizing institutions according to law and donating funds to meet the diversified, differentiated and personalized health needs of citizens.
Citizens, legal persons and other organizations that donate property for medical and health undertakings shall enjoy preferential tax treatment according to law.
Thirteenth organizations and individuals that have made outstanding contributions in medical and health undertakings shall be commended and rewarded in accordance with state regulations.
Article 14 The State encourages and supports foreign exchanges and cooperation in the fields of medical care and health promotion.
To carry out foreign exchange and cooperation activities on medical care and health promotion, we should abide by laws and regulations and safeguard national sovereignty, security and social interests.
Chapter II Basic Medical and Health Services
Article 15 Basic medical and health services refer to services such as disease prevention, diagnosis, treatment, nursing and rehabilitation that are necessary for maintaining human health, are compatible with the level of economic and social development, are accessible to citizens, and are provided through appropriate drugs, technologies and equipment.
Basic medical and health services include basic public health services and basic medical services. The state provides basic public health services free of charge.
Article 16 The state shall take measures to ensure that citizens enjoy safe and effective basic public health services, control risk factors affecting health and improve the level of disease prevention and control.
The national basic public health service items shall be determined by the health department of the State Council in conjunction with the finance department and the traditional Chinese medicine department of the State Council.
The people's governments of provinces, autonomous regions and municipalities directly under the Central Government may, on the basis of the national basic public health services, supplement and determine the basic public health services in their respective administrative regions, and report them to the health authorities in the State Council for the record.
Article 17 The people's governments of the State Council and provinces, autonomous regions and municipalities directly under the Central Government may incorporate services for key areas, key diseases and specific groups into basic public health services and organize their implementation.
Local people's governments at or above the county level shall carry out special prevention and control of major diseases and major health risk factors within their respective administrative areas.
Eighteenth people's governments at or above the county level provide basic public health services by setting up professional public health institutions, primary medical and health institutions and hospitals, or purchasing services from other medical and health institutions.
Article 19 The state establishes and improves the health emergency system for emergencies, formulates and improves emergency plans, and organizes health emergency work such as medical treatment, health investigation and disposal, and psychological assistance for emergencies, so as to effectively control and eliminate hazards.
Article 20 The State establishes a system for the prevention and control of infectious diseases, formulates plans for the prevention and control of infectious diseases and organizes their implementation, strengthens the monitoring and early warning of infectious diseases, and adheres to the principles of giving priority to prevention, combining prevention and control, joint prevention and control, mass prevention and control, prevention and control at the source, and comprehensive treatment, so as to block transmission routes, protect susceptible people and reduce the harm of infectious diseases.
Any organization or individual shall accept and cooperate with medical and health institutions to take measures such as investigation, inspection, sample collection, isolation treatment and medical observation according to law to prevent, control and eliminate the harm of infectious diseases.
Legal basis:
People's Republic of China (PRC) Basic Medical Care and Health Promotion Law
Article 1 This Law is formulated in accordance with the Constitution for the purpose of developing medical and health undertakings, ensuring citizens to enjoy basic medical and health services, improving citizens' health level and promoting the construction of a healthy China.
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.