健康权——当代卫生法的基石

Right to Health:the Cornerstone of Modern Health Law

健康不仅是个人幸福的前提,而且是民族复兴和国家发展的基础,因此,没有全民健康就没有全面小康。健康的至关重要性推动了法律层面上健康权的异军突起,使健康权成为新一代国际人权法的重要内容,进而被很多国家的宪法和法律认可和保障。本文对健康权的形成、内涵、特点和法律表述进行了全面和深入的分析,对健康权的作用、可诉性和保障机制等实践问题进行了比较研究,对健康权带来的挑战以及法学和法治体系将出现的相应变革进行了回应和论证。在此基础上,笔者认为:健康权的出现将推动当代卫生法体系的发展;健康权是该体系建构的基石,政府保障健康权的职责则是其支柱。

Health is not only the precondition of personal wellbeing,but also the foundation of national rejuvenation and prosperity.Logically,where there is no population health,there is no all-round well-off society.The significance of health trigs off the emergence of right to health in the legal field.Right to health therefore becomes one of the important integral parts of new generation of international human rights,and is further recognized and protected by constitution and law in many countries.This paper conducts comprehensive and in-depth analysis of the formation,contents,traits and legal expressions of the right to health,carries out a comparative study of the practical issues of its functions,justiciability and enforcement mechanisms,responds to the challenges brought about by the right to health and expounds the possible consequent changes of the legal science and the legal system.On these bases,the article concludes that right to health will promote further development of the contemporary health law,and that right to health forms the foundation of health law while the accountability of the government constitutes its main pillar.