Overview

WHO provides its member states with specialized legal assistance focused on helping countries to use health laws to improve a population’s health. Areas of legal assistance include:

• systematic analysis of the legal framework for a particular health subject,
  
• development of detailed recommendations for law reform, and
  
• contributing to the drafting of new laws and regulations or other specialized legal instruments, governing health.

WHO’s support is tailored to a country’s needs and circumstances and involves providing careful analysis of the situation in the country being advised, including: its existing legal frameworks, its policy objectives, its institutional capacities and its social, economic and political context.

• Health laws and legal systems
• Resources and tools
• Explaining the law
• Health law by countries
  
  
  

Technical officer

clarked@who.int

Media contact

mediainquiries@who.int