To a human being，health is as important as life itself. For this reason，people try various means to have a healthy body and states also take various legal and institutional measures to secure citizens’ health；there are specific provisions regarding health in the International Covenant on Economic，Social and Culture Rights and other international human rights instruments. Nevertheless，the research on and promotion of the right to health have been far less extensive as those of other economic，social，cultural and political rights. Therefore，the discussion of the right to health as a central topic in this seminar，which will certainly attract more attention of scholars from the fields of law，anthropology，sociology and human rights to this issue，is conducive to enhancing people’s consciousness of the right to health，and to promoting the effective implementation of state’s obligations relating to the right to health as provided for in national laws and international conventions.