title: Public health. Surveillance and privacy.
abstract: Surveillance is the radar of public health. It has provided the foundation for public health planning, intervention, and prevention. Important ethical issues regarding privacy--the extent to which name-based reporting violates the trust and assumptions made about how personal medical information will be treated--are raised by public health surveillance. This policy forum looks at the contexts of differing responses from the public health communities and general public to surveillance efforts.
authors.affiliation: Program in the History of Public Health and Medicine, Division of Sociomedical Sciences, Mailman School of Public Health, Columbia University, New York, NY 10032, USA.
authors.forename: R
authors.initials: R
authors.lastname: Bayer
authors.forename: A L
authors.initials: AL
authors.lastname: Fairchild
mesh_terms: D003141:Communicable Diseases / Q000453:epidemiology; D003219:Confidentiality; D018563:Disease Notification / Q000266:history; D004992:Ethics, Medical; D033161:Government Regulation; D015658:HIV Infections / Q000453:epidemiology; D049672:History, 19th Century; D049673:History, 20th Century; D006801:Humans; D009369:Neoplasms / Q000453:epidemiology; D009784:Occupational Diseases / Q000453:epidemiology; D011159:Population Surveillance; D018907:Privacy; D012042:Registries; D018426:SEER Program; D014481:United States / Q000453:epidemiology; D014611:Vaccination