Detention for tuberculosis: public health and the law.

Detention and the evolving threat of tuberculosis: evidence, ethics, and law.

The issue of detention as a public health control measure has attracted attention recently. This is because the threat of strains of tuberculosis that are resistant to a wider range of drugs has been identified, and there is renewed concern that public health is threatened. This paper considers whether involuntary detention is justified where voluntary measures have failed or where a patient po...

Compulsory detention of recalcitrant tuberculosis patients in the context of a new tuberculosis control programme in Israel.

OBJECTIVE To analyse the use of compulsory detention in the context of a new national tuberculosis (TB) control programme launched in 1997. METHODS A retrospective review was made of the use of compulsory detention in the management of infectious TB before and after the initiation of a new TB control programme, using data from the central TB registry in the Ministry of Health and the charts o...

minimum standards for pre-trial detention in International instruments and Iran law

Stressing that the consequences of today's social, economic, legal and penal population inflation and overcrowding in prisons, the issue has turned into the most complex challenges in the criminal justice system, the pre-tria detention, one of the main factors is the increase in the penal population it is, in a way that almost a quarter of the total population of prisoners in Iran and the world...

The Involuntary Detention and Isolation of Patients Infected with Extreme Resistant Tuberculosis (xdr-tb): Implications for Public Health, Human Rights and Informed Consent

Tuberculosis, non-compliance and detention for the public health.