Safeguarding the people's right to health

Editor's note: The Information Office of the State Council published a whitepaper on the development of China's public health cause. The following are excerpts of comments by Chinese human rights and public health researchers.

A healthcare model for developing countries

China has always attached significance to protecting people's health and taken concrete measures to make public health and hygiene an integral part of the political, economic and social development of the country, blazing a trail for the development of public health according to existing national conditions. This has been praised by the World Health Organization as a model for developing countries.