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- Title
PANDEMICS IN A CONNECTED WORLD: INTEGRATING PRIVACY WITH PUBLIC HEALTH SURVEILLANCE.
- Authors
Bernier, Chantal; Fong, Liane; Banks, Timothy M.
- Abstract
The tragedy of the Ebola pandemic illustrates and confirms the need for information sharing in a coordinated pandemic response. However, high-profile cases reported in the news media, videos of sick, dying, or orphaned individuals in highly intimate and tragic situations as well as public health news conferences and hospital statements have brought to light the privacy implications of pandemic news reporting and public health intervention measures. This article contributes to the ongoing legal, ethical, and social debate regarding the role, if any, to afford to personal privacy in an effective, globalized, and electronic public health surveillance system and pandemic response. Our working assumption is that there should be a role. However, privacy governance frameworks are, at best, incomplete in ensuring effective and protective use of personal information in pandemics response.
- Subjects
CANADA; PANDEMICS; PUBLIC health surveillance; EBOLA virus disease; PUBLIC health; INFORMATION sharing; ELECTRONIC health records
- Publication
University of New Brunswick Law Journal, 2015, Vol 66, p117
- ISSN
0077-8141
- Publication type
Article