What is public health legal preparedness?

Journal of Law, Medicine and Ethics

Volumn 31, Issue 4, 2003, Pages 672-683

  Moulton, Anthony D ^a,g   Gottfried, Richard N ^e,f   Goodman, Richard A ^a,b,c,d   Murphy, Anne M ^h   Rawson, Raymond D ^e,i,j,k,l,m  

^a CENTERS FOR DISEASE CONTROL AND PREVENTION   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF MICHIGAN   (United States)

^c EMORY UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^d UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^e Comm Hlth in the NY State Assembly ^*

^f Columbia Law School ^*  (United States)

^g Office of the Governor   (United States)

^h ILLINOIS DEPARTMENT OF PUBLIC HEALTH   (United States)

ⁱ Univ and Comm Coll Syst of NV   (United States)

^j Department of Social Sciences   (United States)

^k UNIVERSITY OF NEVADA   (United States)

^l Robert Woods Johnson Foundation   (United States)

^m Reforming States Group

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Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CONFERENCE PAPER; HEALTH CARE SYSTEM; LAW; LEGAL ASPECT; POPULATION; PRACTICE GUIDELINE; PUBLIC HEALTH; STANDARD; BIOLOGICAL WARFARE; DISASTER PLANNING; EPIDEMIC; HEALTH CARE PLANNING; HUMAN; INFECTION CONTROL; QUALITY CONTROL; REVIEW; UNITED STATES;

BENCHMARKING; BIOTERRORISM; COMMUNICABLE DISEASE CONTROL; DISASTER PLANNING; DISEASE OUTBREAKS; HEALTH PLANNING GUIDELINES; HUMANS; PUBLIC HEALTH; UNITED STATES;

EID: 1542505675     PISSN: 10731105     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1748-720X.2003.tb00134.x     Document Type: Conference Paper

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