Development of the Public health code

The Public health code French , created in 1953, was remelted by ordinance in 2000 for the legislative part and by five important decrees for the lawful part between 2003 and 2005. Its publication involved simultaneous abrogation several hundreds of codified texts from now on. It is emblematic revival of French coding since the installation of the higher Commission of coding in 1989.

The current Public health code

This " code large ampleur" (its recent publication occupied 804 pages with the Official journal and it counts more than 10.000 articles) the field of the right of the public health determines materially.

It comprises in 6 parts, themselves divided into books, titles, chapters and articles:

• right of the people as regards health (right of in-patients or not, right bioethics, environment and health);
• specific right specific to certain populations (mother - voluntary interruption of pregnancy and medical assistance with procreation - and child);
• specific right specific to certain diseases (mental diseases, AIDS) and dependences (nicotinism, alcoholism, drug-addiction);
• right of the professions of health (medical professions, pharmaceutical professions, medical auxiliaries);
• right of the health products (cosmetic drugs, products related of which and medical devices);
• right of the establishments and departments of health (hospital right, analysis laboratories of medical biology, transport medical).

Each part ends in a book devoted to the duty applicable to the communities of overseas subjected to the principle of the legislative speciality with the corresponding adaptations.

Unceasingly modified because of the progress of the ideas and the techniques and the evolution of the Community legislation, the legislative part was enriched by 84 laws and ordinances in 72 months since June 2000.

The code is accessible on the public site Legifrance which places at the disposal an edition constantly updated, essential to free check the last version of an article. An edition paper, allowing a more general approach, is also published periodically by the Official journals.

Several private editors propose useful editions of the public health code.

External bonds

• the French Public health code on légifrance

Internal bonds

• Public health
• Bioethics
• Environment
• Drinking water
• Termination of pregnancy
• Procreation médicalement assisted
• Mental diseases
• AIDS
• Nicotinism
• Drug-addiction
• Alcoholism
• Doctor S
• Midwives
• Medical auxiliary Dental surgeons
• Male nurse S
• Pharmacist S
• Drug S
• Cosmetic S
• medical Devices
• Establishments of health
• Analysis laboratory of medical biology
• medical Transport