REVIEW OF THE PUBLIC HEALTH LAW IN THE CONTEXT OF WHO POLICIES AND DIRECTIONS
REVIEW OF THE PUBLIC HEALTH LAW IN THE CONTEXT OF WHO POLICIES AND DIRECTIONS

Summary/Abstract: Legislation is a valuable mechanism in the promotion of public health as indicated by the increasing number of special public health laws being adopted in Europe. The Republic of Macedonia joined this trend in 2010 with the adoption of the Law on Public Health. The rapid development of strategies, policies and instruments in the field of public health on the part of the World Health Organization in the last couple of years, particularly the adoption of the Strategy for Health and Well-being Health 2020 (2012) and the European Action Plan for Strengthening Public Health Services and Capacity (2012) necessarily entails the analysis of the Law on Public Health so as to establish if any amendment is needed given the latest development of policies and legislation in Europe in order to achieve the ambitiously defined objectives of the Law itself. This review aims to point out the necessary changes to be made so as to update the 2010 Law on Public Health in accordance with the European tendencies and transform it into a serious instrument for public health promotion in the Republic of Macedonia. Public health legislation is hereinafter understood as the legal powers and duties of the State to assure the conditions for the population to be healthy (such as identifying, preventing and managing the health risks) as well as the limitations on the power of the State to constrain the autonomy, privacy, liberty or other legally safeguarded interests of individuals for the purposes of protecting or promoting community health.

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