Public health strategies for pandemic influenza: Ethics and the law

JAMA

Volumn 295, Issue 14, 2006, Pages 1700-1704

  Gostin, Lawrence ^a  

^a GEORGETOWN UNIVERSITY LAW CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

DISEASE TRANSMISSION; EMPORIATRICS; HEALTH CARE SYSTEM; HOSPITAL INFECTION; HOST PATHOGEN INTERACTION; HUMAN; HYGIENE; INFECTION CONTROL; INFLUENZA; INTERVENTION STUDY; MICROORGANISM DETECTION; NOTE; PATHOGENICITY; PERIODIC MEDICAL EXAMINATION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PUBLIC HEALTH SERVICE; RISK ASSESSMENT; SOCIAL ASPECT; ARTICLE; EPIDEMIC; ETHICS; HEALTH CARE AND PUBLIC HEALTH; LEGAL APPROACH; LEGAL ASPECT; PATIENT CARE; UNITED STATES;

HEALTH CARE AND PUBLIC HEALTH; LEGAL APPROACH;

DISEASE OUTBREAKS; HUMANS; INFECTION CONTROL; INFLUENZA, HUMAN; PATIENT ISOLATION; PUBLIC HEALTH PRACTICE; QUARANTINE; UNITED STATES;

EID: 33645748055     PISSN: 00987484     EISSN: 15383598     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1001/jama.295.14.1700     Document Type: Note

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