International Health Law: A New Perspective on Public Health Research
Keywords:
International Health Law, World Health Organization, Coronavirus 2019 Pandemic, New Pandemic Treaty, Content AnalysisAbstract
International health law is a new international legal field following a small scale of development in international legal education. States, as the leading actor in classical international law and followed by World Health Organization (WHO), have their duties to foster and fulfill the implementation of these international laws since the creation of the World Health Organization. Moreover, international legal documents related to public health are limited due to the need for cooperation with medical, health science, and public health experts. In addition, the explanation and comprehensive understanding of the specific field have promulgated international public health standardization globally.
The coronavirus 2019 pandemic aims to question and also answer the international legal status of international health law, which has its soft realization and is hardly implemented into domestic affairs by states. However, this pandemic crisis led in time to crystallize the power of implementation, including the World Health Organization’s announcement, the implementation guideline, and various communications. These WHO actions evoke the states to create an adaptation plan immediately and decrease the stress of the global citizen due to the global pandemic.
The role of the World Health Organization (WHO) is to communicate scientific knowledge concerning health science and public health according to the final decision on the states’ practice at the time of the highest pandemic across the globe. Additionally, the role of international health governance and lawyers has reached the rule-making process's peak. Besides, the monitoring system and public participation were limited untimely, and actions affected the assessment and follow-up.
This paper is based on creating a new pandemic treaty for the future global pandemic, which factors should be included for global management. At the same time, it is extricating expeditiously. The other factors should be then reconsidered in the new pandemic treaty globally because the health emergencies frequency impacted all global citizens. In particular, the corporations between international lawyers and technical experts on public health create new guidelines for all states and improve the prevention and public participation of citizens globally. As a result, it will be effectively controlling the next global pandemic.
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