Article 3. Basic concepts

The following basic concepts are used in this Law:

sanitary and epidemiological well-being of the population — the state of public health in which no harmful impact of environmental factors on a person exists and favorable conditions are ensured for his life activity;

state sanitary supervision — activities aimed at preventing, detecting and eliminating violations of the legislation on sanitary and epidemiological well-being of the population;

human living environment — a set of objects, phenomena and environmental factors that determine the conditions of human life activity;

sanitary-hygienic measures and anti-epidemic measures — organizational, administrative, engineering-technical, medical-sanitary and other measures aimed at preventing and eliminating the emergence and spread of infectious and parasitic diseases;

sanitary and epidemiological situation — the state, in a specific territory at a specified time, of the environment in which the population lives and of public health;

sanitary and epidemiology service — a unified system comprising the Sanitary-epidemiological well-being and public health service of the Republic of Uzbekistan, its territorial directorates, district (city) divisions and organizations that carry out activities in the sphere of sanitary and epidemiological well-being of the population;

restrictive measures (quarantine) — administrative, medical-sanitary and other measures aimed at preventing the spread of infectious and parasitic diseases, providing for a special regime of certain economic and other activities, and restrictions on the movement of the population, vehicles, cargo and/or goods;

infectious and parasitic diseases — human diseases that arise and spread due to the influence of biological factors of the environment in which a person lives and because a disease may be transmitted from a sick person or animal to a healthy person.