Medical and health care shall 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 a healthy China, popularizes healthy living, optimizes health services, improves health protection, builds a healthy environment, develops health industries, and improves citizens' health throughout the life cycle.
The State establishes a system of health education, guarantees the right of citizens to receive health education, and improves citizens' health literacy. Article 5 Citizens enjoy the right to obtain basic medical and health services from the State and society in accordance with law.
The State establishes a system of basic medical care and health care, establishes and improves the system of medical care and health care services, and protects and realizes the right of citizens to obtain basic medical care and health care services. Article 6 The people's governments at all levels shall give priority to people's health in the strategic position of development, integrate the concept of health into all policies, adhere to prevention as the mainstay, improve the health promotion work system, organize and implement the planning and action of health promotion, promote the fitness of the whole people, establish a health impact assessment system, and incorporate the improvement of citizens' major health indicators into the government's target responsibility assessment.
The whole society shall *** with concern and support the development of medical care and health. Article 7 The State Council and local people's governments at all levels lead the work of medical care and health promotion.
The competent health department of the State Council is responsible for coordinating the national medical care and health promotion work. Other relevant departments of the State Council are responsible for relevant medical care and health promotion work within their respective areas of responsibility.
The competent health authorities of the local people's governments at or above the county level are responsible for coordinating the work of medical care and health promotion in their administrative regions. Other relevant departments of the local people's government at or above the county level are responsible for medical care and health promotion within their respective areas of responsibility. Article 8 The State strengthens basic scientific research in medicine, encourages innovation in medical science and technology, supports the development of clinical medicine, promotes the transformation and application of the achievements of medical science and technology, promotes the integration and development of medical and health care and information technology, promotes appropriate technology in medical and health care, and improves the quality of medical and health care services.
The State develops medical education, improves the medical education system to meet the needs of medical and health care development, and vigorously cultivates medical and health care personnel. Article 9 The State vigorously develops the cause of traditional Chinese medicine, adheres to the equal importance of Chinese and Western medicine, and the combination of inheritance and innovation, and gives full play to the unique role of traditional Chinese medicine in the cause of health care and health. Article 10 The State shall rationally plan and allocate medical and health resources, focusing on the grassroots level, and take various measures to prioritize support for the development of medical and health institutions below the county level and to improve their medical and health service capacity. Article 11 The State increases financial investment in medical and health care and health undertakings, and focuses on supporting the development of medical and health care and health undertakings in old revolutionary areas, ethnic 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 health and health care through institutions organized in accordance with the law and donations, funding and other means to meet the diverse, differentiated and individualized health needs of citizens.
Citizens, legal persons and other organizations to donate property for medical care and health, enjoy tax benefits in accordance with the law. Article XIII of the medical health and health care in the cause of outstanding contributions to the organizations and individuals, in accordance with state regulations to give recognition and reward. Article 14 The state encourages and supports foreign exchanges and cooperation in the field of medical care and health promotion.
To carry out foreign exchange and cooperation activities in the field of medical and health care and health promotion, it shall comply with 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, refers to the maintenance of human health is necessary, with the level of economic and social development, citizens can be fairly accessible, the use of appropriate medicines, appropriate technology, appropriate equipment to provide services such as disease prevention, diagnosis, treatment, care and rehabilitation.
Basic medical and health services include basic public **** health services and basic medical services. Basic public **** health services are provided by the State free of charge. Article 16 The State takes measures to ensure that citizens enjoy safe and effective basic public **** health services, to control risk factors affecting health, and to improve the prevention and control of disease.
The national basic public **** health service programs shall be determined by the competent health department of the State Council in conjunction with the financial department of the State Council and the competent department of traditional Chinese medicine **** together.
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 service programs, supplement the determination of the basic public **** health service programs in their administrative areas, and report them to the competent health department of the State Council for the record. Article 17 The State Council and the people's governments of provinces, autonomous regions and municipalities directly under the Central Government may incorporate into the basic public **** health service projects and organize the implementation of the services targeting key areas, key diseases and specific populations.
Local people's governments at or above the county level carry out special prevention and control work for major diseases and major health risk factors in their administrative regions.