L'hirondel A, Yach D
Policy Action Coordination Team, World Health Organization, Geneva.
World Health Stat Q. 1998;51(1):79-87.
The rule of law consists of one of the key requirements to implement policy reforms. The new global health policy, "Health for All in the 21st Century", indicates the role of public health law to attain its values and objectives. This article studies the status retained to secure both international and national law in the new policy, and identifies two initiatives to be undertaken by WHO to develop and strengthen public health law. The usefulness and efficiency of international law depend on national capacities to implement law. Thus, this article concludes that the Organization should adopt international legal instruments and that it should, simultaneously, assist Member States to build institutional and human capacity in public health law. However, these initiatives require that all Member States confirm political determination to link economic and social reforms with legislative reforms.
法治是实施政策改革的关键要求之一。新的全球卫生政策《21世纪人人享有健康》表明了公共卫生法在实现其价值观和目标方面的作用。本文研究了新政策中为确保国际法和国内法所保留的地位，并确定了世卫组织为制定和加强公共卫生法而采取的两项举措。国际法的效用和效率取决于各国实施法律的能力。因此，本文得出结论，本组织应通过国际法律文书，同时应协助会员国建设公共卫生法方面的机构能力和人力资源能力。然而，这些举措要求所有会员国确认将经济和社会改革与立法改革联系起来的政治决心。
