The Basic Medical and Health Promotion Law of People's Republic of China (PRC) is a law 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.
Summarize the experience of China's medical and health system reform, and make top-level, institutional and basic arrangements for implementing the strategic deployment of the CPC Central Committee and the State Council to promote basic medical and health care. It is the first basic and comprehensive law in China's health field, which plays a fundamental and overall role in promoting the rule of law in China's health field, implementing the general plan of comprehensively administering the country according to law in health work, building a basic medical and health system with China characteristics, comprehensively safeguarding people's health, and promoting the construction of a healthy China.
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People's Republic of China (PRC) Basic Medical Care and Health Promotion Law
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. 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.