Ethics of public health surveillance: new guidelines
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منابع مشابه
Ethics in public health surveillance.
Public health programmes pose some very important ethical problems. One of the most pressing is the possible conflict between individual interests (and rights) and collective interests, which becomes particularly important in the public health surveillance setting. The present article first looks at the definitions of "public health surveillance" in a historical context and then identifies the ...
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ژورنال
عنوان ژورنال: The Lancet Public Health
سال: 2017
ISSN: 2468-2667
DOI: 10.1016/s2468-2667(17)30136-6