On the Legitimacy of Social Organizations'Collaborative Prevention and Control of Public Health Emergency Risks
The existing legislation for the risk prevention and control of public health emergency uses"hazards"to define primary and derivative risks,and stipulates that"social organizations"may participate in the prevention,control,mitigation and elimination of these hazards and the losses they cause through a variety of means.Although the COVID-19 epidemic is no longer classified as a"public health emergency of international concern",the need to build a prevention and control community,the urgent demand for the development of passive and active paths for the deep legal involvement by social organizations in accordance with the law,and the complex intertwining of old and new issues in domestic and international prevention and control have compelled the inclusion of the collaborative mechanism for the prevention and control of public health emergencies in national top-level planning.The timely implementation of the top-level design needs to take into account the increasingly urgent need to build a social governance community in the risk society and the specific characteristics of public health risk prevention and control,and integrate the regulatory,normative and cognitive elements of"general legitimacy".In addition,the legality of collaborative prevention and control should be systematically reconstructed by combining the factors of"situational legality",such as project,community and region,so as to provide precise legal support for resolving the current dilemma of the legal identity faced by social organizations in collaborative prevention and control,and to promote innovative improvement of the soft power of governance and the building of the social governance community.
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