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Rationale As an outcome of the July of 2005 Conference on the State of Health Law, Policy, and Research in China at Temple University Beasley School of Law was a realization that health law scholarship in China lacks capacity and resources. Inside China, the general public and public interest advocates often lack knowledge of both the law on the books and broader bioethics principles. Those who engage in research and advocacy outside of China also stood to benefit from a comprehensive reference resource of Chinese health laws. This project's goal was to gather and index existing translations of Chinese health law to help facilitate research and policy efforts of those interested in exploring issues at the interface of health and law in China. Methods This project involved a comprehensive Internet search for every English translation Chinese health law, statute, regulation, and other legal resource available. As they gathered these sources, the members of the research team recorded the name of the statute, regulation, etc, the area of law it involved, the date of the statute or regulation, the geographical location of the website, the language it appeared in, and whether the permission to use the content had been granted. A number of printed translations of Chinese health law were also scanned and parsed into separate documents, each representing a stand-alone law, statute, regulation, or article. A hyperlinked excel table with tabs for different areas of law provided an easily navigable framework for the many laws that were located. The areas of law covered were: Health Professions Institutions, Health Care System, Occupational Health, Public Health, Disability and Mental Health, Bioethics, HIV/AIDS, Controlled Substances, Elder Law, Family Planning, Food Law, and Medical Drug and Device Law. We then divided each of the categories of law up further, by level of government and type of resource. The hierarchies of government regulation were: Federal, Province, and Local. The majority of the statutes, regulations and proclamations are on the federal level. The types of resources we broke it down by were: statute, regulations, and related resources. “Related resources” included news articles, White Papers, proclamations, notifications, and speeches. |
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