HLTH-4780 Lecture Notes - Lecture 8: Contact Tracing, Partner Notification, Disease Surveillance
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Eight: surveillance and public health research; privacy and the right to know : pp. Surveillance ay trigger ph interventions and the way the interventions have been viewed as central. Proposals for reporting provoke resistance or alarm when they involve disease carrying social stigma or touch those who view themselves as socially marginalized or vulnerable to social or economic injury. Although constituents have sometimes been highly alert to the potential imposition of a surveillance regime, that has not always been the case. Creates tension between physicians, whose role is to protect the patients, and public health officials, whose role is to protect the public. Respective state legislators the states exercise their authority to require reporting by enacting legislation. 58 diseases are on the recommended list from the cdc. The ph worker would not confirm the identity of the obvious source of exposure.
