后SARS时代公共卫生政策的伦理思考

An Ethical Reflection on the Public Health Policy in the Post-SARS Era

20 0 3年春天中国发生的SARS流行暴露出我们在卫生改革中政策导向上的失误。我国在向市场经济转化过程中 ,忽视了公共卫生对国家安全的重要性 ,导致政府对公共卫生投入不足 ,重治轻防 ,缺乏紧急事件的应对措施 ,是这次SARS大范围流传的深层次原因。我们必须从为最广大人民群众的根本利益出发 ,调整卫生政策 。

The mass epidemic of SARS in China during the spring of year 2003 reveals defects in the guidelines for Chinese public health policy. During the marketizing process of Chinese economy, our government neglected the vital importance of public health to national security, which led to insufficient investment in public health, negligence of prophylaxis and lack of effective measures to deal with emergency cases. It constitutes the underlying cause of the mass epidemic of SARS. Therefore, we must amend our public health policy and reconstruct our public health system to secure the ultimate interest of the utmost majority of our people.