One major concern of the public health system today is isolation and quarantine. When is the use of isolation and/or quarantine appropriate? Who is authorized to make that final decision and what are the procedures involved? Further, what’s the most effective way of doing it and how can the public health system be better prepared to deal with it? As Margaret Hamburg states in the states in her 2001 article, “Challenges Confronting Public Health Agencies”, published in Health Report:
All these questions involve many different levels of government and many different laws and authorities and raise many complex and intertwined ethical issues. In a systematic and coherent way, we must address this array of pressing issues and concerns, and not just what laws are in place or could be put in place but also what policies and procedures would be necessary to actually implement them. (Hamburg, p.5)
The first things the public health system must be aware of are the current laws in......
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