Governments use health laws for:
- Establishing important health policy goals (including universal health coverage);
- Implementing health policy;
- Enabling the effective operation of key health system functions and regulating inputs (service provision, health workforce, medical products and technologies, financing, health information and governance);
- Creating the health systems architecture, establishing health organizations and networks, establishing mandates, duties and accountabilities;
- Managing and responding to risks to personal health and a country’s health security;
- Applying international health agreements and development goals at country level;
- Build strong foundations for good governance to enable meaningful participation by all types of individuals and health stakeholders, protect rights and define responsibilities, and
- Establish predictable, appropriate and fair rules for facilitating the operation of health markets and setting norms for
Health law
For all aspects of health, there are binding rules that govern the rights and responsibilities of governments, health workers, companies, civil society and a country’s population. Together these rules make up the legal framework, or legal architecture for health. They take many forms including: statutory laws, regulatory and administrative laws, contracts, case law, and customary laws. Who is involved in making these rules, and the form they take, differs from country to country.
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