Research On Legal Issues Of Government Information Disclosure In Public Health Emergencies

In recent years,there has been an mounting in emergent events of public health in China,such as SARS,Hand,foot and mouth disease(HFMD),influenza A(H1N1)and COVID-19,which have seriously threatened the lives and health of the people and posed extremely severe and complex challenges to China’s economic and social development.in the meantime,With the continuous development of science and technology,the speed of mass communication has accelerated and the extent of the spectator has amplifide,which has made it more difficult to control public health emergencies,and has posed a huge challenge to the information disclosure work of administrative agencies.After a public health emergency occurs,it is often difficult for people to accurately judge the correct information about the event.Therefore,in this special period,the government can disclose information and data related to the incident in a timely manner,which not only protects the public’s right to know,but also enhances people’s awareness of incident risks and intercepts and prevents the spread of false information.This affects the result of public health emergency to a great extent.Therefore,research and discuss government information disclosure in public health emergencies,analyze the questions that turn up,and put forward corresponding legal proposals,refine the boundary of government information,unify the subject of information disclosure,and standardize the procedures for information disclosure.Improving the timeliness of information disclosure and strengthening the supervision and accountability of information disclosure are of great significance to the crisis management of public health emergencies.After the coVID-19 outbreak in late 2019,the Chinese government attached great importance to information disclosure.Combined with the disclosure of government information in this epidemic,it can be seen that there are still some problems in the legal system of information disclosure in public health emergencies in China.For example,there is a lack of systematicness between laws and regulations,insufficient connection and coordination of laws and regulations,and conflicts and inconsistencies between comprehensive and specialized laws and regulations.Therefore,perfecting the corresponding laws and regulations related to information disclosure is risk society under the background of the government to respond effectively to the inevitable requirement of emergent public health events,after the events for the government information disclosure work provide a legal basis,make the public in a timely manner after the incident to take more effective risk prevention and control measures,as well as to improve the credibility of government departments and the government information disclosure work of execution.This paper studies the legal issues of government information disclosure in public health emergencies in China through the following five parts.The first part is the introduction.In the introduction,it first introduces the research background of the thesis and the theoretical value and practical significance of the research.Second,it combs and summarizes the research of domestic and foreign scholars.Once again elaborated the main research content of this article and the main research methods adopted in the full text,and finally analyzed the innovation and imperfections of this article.The second part is the basic theory of government information disclosure in public health emergencies.Firstly,the concepts of "public health emergencies" and"government information disclosure" are sorted out,and the relevant theories of government information disclosure of public health emergencies are briefly introduced,as well as the characteristics of government information disclosure at the time of public health emergencies compared with that of general government information disclosure.The third part studies the current situation of the disclosure of government information about public health emergencies in China based on the COVID-19 epidemic.It summarizes and sorts out laws and regulations at different levels according to the current legislative situation of the disclosure of government information about public health emergencies in China.By studying the current development status and legislative status.It also analyzes the main body,scope,timeliness,and related issues of the donation information disclosure and supervision mechanism in the current public health emergencies in our country.The fourth part mainly analyzes the current situation of government information disclosure in public health emergencies in Germany and Japan,and combs the relevant legal systems of the two countries to find useful experience for reference.The fifth part proposes corresponding legal measures for improving the public information disclosure of public health emergencies in our country based on the problems of the third part.Firstly,it is proposed to improve the legal requirements related to the main body of government information disclosure;secondly,it is proposed to optimize the legal design of the public information disclosure scope for the government’s unclear scope of information disclosure;again,it is aimed at the timeliness of government information disclosure.In response to the imperfect procedural regulations,it put forward sound and time-related legal regulations;finally,in view of the problems of insufficient supervision and generalization of accountability in public health emergencies,it is proposed to strengthen the improvement of the information disclosure supervision and accountability mechanism.