A Legal Perspective on Preventing and Controlling Transnational Infectious Diseases in Taiwan- A Case Study on SARS

• Main Authors: Mei-Hung Chu, 朱美虹
• Other Authors: Huei-Chih Niu
• Format: Others
• Language: zh-TW
• Published: 2005
• Online Access: http://ndltd.ncl.edu.tw/handle/96832981985348675010

碩士 === 國立清華大學 === 科技法律研究所 === 93 === Based on the history of SARS (Severe Acute Respiratory Syndrome), an emerging infectious disease, spreading worldwide up to 30 countries and caused to locally large scale infectious events in Taiwan, the article discusses how SARS, the first emerging infectious disease in 21st century, lashed international public health legal system as well as WHO directing international infectious disease controlling framework, and promoted the only public health international law, IHR(International Health Regulation), to be revised. Meanwhile, the article analyzes and deduces an international infectious disease preventing and controlling framework under IHR legal system in post-SARS era. Owing to global communication and frequently trading, regional public health and infectious disease preventing as well as controlling problem get internationalized progressively. The article review Taiwan’s SARS experience, and examine Taiwan’s Surveillance System of Infectious Diseases, for instance, the Communicable Disease Control Act and its Regulations. SARS history told us microbe doesn’t recognize any boundary, Taiwan has to cooperate with international society and keep up public health system with international standard. Subsequently, these acts/regulations are compared with the surveillance system of new amended IHR, and analyzed in three aspects: frontier measures, infectious disease surveillance and informing system as well as public health measures. According to researching results, Taiwan’s Communicable Disease Control Act and its Regulations have lots of space to be amended, especially in connecting with international legal system. The article suggests improving Taiwan’s surveillance system and disease control mechanism according to IHR, as well as strength human right protection in order to reduce the risk of infectious disease endangering Taiwan’s public health, communication and economics.