Construction of Public Health Safety Legal System Framework from the Perspective of Precautionary Principle

• Author: Zhuqi He
• Position: Juris Master, Chongqing University (Chongqing, China)
• Pages: 32-42

Ukrainian Policymaker, Volume 6, 2020

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Construction of Public Health Safety

Legal System Framework from the Perspective

of Precautionary Principle

Zhuqi He1

Juris Master, Chongqing University (Chongqing, China)

E-mail: 948622751@qq.com

https://orcid.org/0000-0001-6965-8220

He, Zhuqi (2020) Construction of Public Health Safety Legal System Framework from

the Perspective of Precautionary Principle. Ukrainian Policymaker, Volume 6, 32-42. https://

doi.org/10.29202/up/6/4

The outbreak of COVID-19 has plunged China and the world into a dilemma in dealing with sudden

social and public health incidents. The epidemic has aected both the economy and society as a whole.

From the perspective of the principle of precautionary, the existing legal framework for public health

security has three major dilemmas, namely, lack of information regulation, unbalanced decentralization

regulation, and lack of eectiveness regulation. In order to better cope with the epidemic situation caused

by the novel coronavirus, the legal system of the public health system should be reconstructed from

the three dimensions of perfect information regulation, decentralization regulation and eectiveness

regulation to deal with the crisis.

Keywords: coronavirus, precautionary principles, public health safety, legal system framework

Received: February 28, 2020; accepted: March 26, 2020

Introduction

At the end of December 2019, an unknown virus began to appear. After the coronavirus

was recognized and worried by the public, the new virus epidemic has already started to sweep

across China. According to the ocial data released by the National Health Commission,

the cumulative number of conrmed cases in Wuhan City, Hubei Province is 67,803, with

a cumulative total of 3,219 deaths, and the number of diagnosed cases in 31 provinces and

Xinjiang Production and Construction Corps are 82,052, with a total of 3,339 deaths. However,

this data is still increasing and uctuating. Confronting unknown viruses and diseases, mankind

seems to be in a dilemma: where did viruses come from? How did it spread? How should we

face the challenge and solve unknown problems? With the current level of human knowledge

© He, Zhuqi, 2020