The Center for Disease Control and Prevention mainly carries out disease prevention and control, emergency handling of public health emergencies, environmental and occupational health, nutrition and health, health for the aged, maternal and child health, radiation health and school health. Organize the formulation of national public health technical programs and guidelines, and undertake the comprehensive management of public health-related health standards; To carry out monitoring and evaluation of infectious diseases, chronic diseases, occupational diseases, endemic diseases, public health emergencies and suspected abnormal reactions to vaccination; Participate in national public health emergency preparedness and response, and organize the formulation of relevant technical specifications for epidemiological investigation and sanitary treatment of food safety accidents; Carry out disease prevention and control, emergency response to public health emergencies, key scientific research and technology development of public health; Carry out postgraduate education, continuing education and related professional and technical training in the field of public health.
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Law of People's Republic of China (PRC) 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.
Article 5 People's governments at all levels shall lead the prevention and control of infectious diseases.
The people's governments at or above the county level shall formulate plans for the prevention and control of infectious diseases and organize their implementation, and establish and improve the disease prevention and control, medical treatment, supervision and management systems for the prevention and control of infectious diseases.
Article 6 The health administrative department of the State Council is in charge of the prevention and control of infectious diseases and its supervision and management. The health administrative departments of local people's governments at or above the county level shall be responsible for the prevention and control of infectious diseases and their supervision and management within their respective administrative areas.
Other departments of the people's governments at or above the county level shall be responsible for the prevention and control of infectious diseases within their respective functions and duties.
The prevention and control of infectious diseases in the army shall be handled in accordance with this Law and the relevant provisions of the state, and shall be supervised and managed by the competent health department of the People's Liberation Army of China.
Seventh disease prevention and control institutions at all levels shall undertake the monitoring, prediction, epidemiological investigation and epidemic report of infectious diseases.
Medical institutions undertake the prevention and treatment of infectious diseases related to medical treatment and the prevention of infectious diseases in their areas of responsibility. Urban communities and rural grass-roots medical institutions shall, under the guidance of disease prevention and control institutions, undertake the corresponding prevention and control of infectious diseases in urban communities and rural grass-roots units.