Public Health Strategies for Confronting AIDS: Legislative and Regulatory Policy in the United States

JAMA: The Journal of the American Medical Association

Volumn 261, Issue 11, 1989, Pages 1621-1630

  Gostin, Larry O ^a  

^a HARVARD SCHOOL OF PUBLIC HEALTH   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ACQUIRED IMMUNE DEFICIENCY SYNDROME; LAW; LEGAL ASPECT; ORGANIZATION AND MANAGEMENT; PRIORITY JOURNAL; UNITED STATES;

ANALYTICAL APPROACH; BLOOD DONATION; CLINICAL APPROACH/SOURCE; DRUG ABUSE; FEDERAL GOVERNMENT; GOVERNMENT REGULATION; HEALTH CARE AND PUBLIC HEALTH; LEGAL APPROACH; MANDATORY PROGRAMS; PREGNANT WOMEN; SOCIAL DISCRIMINATION; UNITED STATES; VOLUNTARY PROGRAMS;

ACQUIRED IMMUNODEFICIENCY SYNDROME; AIDS SERODIAGNOSIS; CONFIDENTIALITY; CRIMINAL LAW; HEALTH EDUCATION; HEALTH POLICY; HUMAN; MASS SCREENING; STATE GOVERNMENT; SUPPORT, NON-U.S. GOV'T; TISSUE BANKS; UNITED STATES;

EID: 0024581019     PISSN: 00987484     EISSN: 15383598     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1001/jama.1989.03420110097031     Document Type: Article

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