title: Health law in the 21st century.
abstract: BACKGROUND
  Law and health operate within different models affecting health law.
  Ageing and changed dynamics focuses health law on chronic illness, resource allocation, mobility and driving.
  Swine Flu mandates health law to manage epidemiology, international travel and disease virulence.
  Population changes, doctors' numbers and remuneration, health insurance and demographics restrict healthcare access, impacting on health law.
  
  
  BACKGROUND
  Genetic interpretation allows discrimination against undiagnosed people with genetic propensity to diseases, necessitating legal protection.
  E-medicine, telemedicine, record privacy and professional standards are relevant to health law.
  
  
  CONCLUSIONS
  Issues concerning health law in the 21st century were reviewed.
authors.affiliation: School of Medicine, Griffith University.
authors.forename: Roy
authors.initials: R
authors.lastname: Beran
mesh_terms: D000375:Aging; D002908:Chronic Disease; D003219:Confidentiality / Q000331:legislation & jurisprudence*; D004196:Disease Outbreaks / Q000331:legislation & jurisprudence / Q000517:prevention & control; D034742:Electronic Mail; D020022:Genetic Predisposition to Disease; D014943:Global Health; D006297:Health Services Accessibility / Q000331:legislation & jurisprudence*; D006801:Humans; D007883:Legislation, Medical / Q000592:standards / Q000639:trends*; D011157:Population Dynamics; D017216:Telemedicine / Q000331:legislation & jurisprudence / Q000639:trends