Basic principles of health law

The basic principles of health law, that is, the basic principles of health administrative law and administrative legal system, refer to the basic spirit and norms of health legal system that run through the legal norms and relations of health administration, guiding and restricting the legislation and implementation of health administration.

Like other laws and regulations, health administrative law also has many principles that must be followed, but it can be roughly divided into the following categories according to different levels: 1. Principles of health protection: The principles of health protection have two aspects: First, everyone has the right to health protection. Second, everyone has the right to high-quality health protection.

2. Prevention first principle: prevention first is the basic principle and policy of health work in China, and it is also the basic principle that health law must follow.

3. The principle of fairness: the principle of fairness is to take the balance of interests as the value judgment standard, allocate health resources and coordinate health care activities, so that every member of society can generally get health care.

4. The principle of protecting social health: the principle of protecting social health is essentially to coordinate the relationship between personal interests and social health interests, which is a recognized goal of health laws all over the world.

5. The principle of patient autonomy: The principle of patient autonomy means that patients make reasonable, rational and responsible independent decisions on medical problems related to their own diseases after careful consideration.

legal ground

Article 26 of the Food Hygiene Law: Food producers and marketers must have a health examination every year; Food production and marketing personnel who are new to work or temporarily take part in the work must have a health examination and obtain a health certificate before taking part in the work.

Anyone who suffers from dysentery, typhoid fever, viral hepatitis and other digestive tract infectious diseases (including pathogen carriers), active tuberculosis, suppurative or exudative skin diseases and other diseases that hinder food hygiene shall not take part in direct contact with imported food.

Article 47 of the Food Hygiene Law violates the provisions of this law, if any food producer or marketer engages in food production and marketing without obtaining a health certificate, or if any food producer or marketer who is not allowed to have direct contact with imported food due to illness fails to transfer according to the provisions, he shall be ordered to make corrections and may be fined not more than 5,000 yuan.

People's Republic of China (PRC) Health Law Article 1 This Law is formulated for the purpose of ensuring food hygiene, preventing food pollution and harmful factors from harming human health, safeguarding people's health and enhancing people's physique.