Sustaining surveillance : the importance of information for public health / John G. Francis, Leslie P. Francis.
Francis, John G.; Francis, Leslie, 1946-
2021
RA652.2.P82 F73 2021eb
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Title Sustaining surveillance : the importance of information for public health / John G. Francis, Leslie P. Francis.
Author Francis, John G.
ISBN 9783030639280 (electronic bk.)
3030639282 (electronic bk.)
3030639266
9783030639266
DOI https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-63928-0
Published Cham : Springer, 2021.
Copyright ©2021
Language English
Description 1 online resource (x, 224 pages)
Other Standard Identifiers 10.1007/978-3-030-63928-0 doi
Call Number RA652.2.P82 F73 2021eb
Dewey Decimal Classification 614.4
Summary This book presents a comprehensive theory of the ethics and political philosophy of public health surveillance based on reciprocal obligations among surveillers, those under surveillance, and others potentially affected by surveillance practices. Public health surveillance aims to identify emerging health trends, population health trends, treatment efficacy, and methods of health promotion--all apparently laudatory goals. Nonetheless, as with anti-terrorism surveillance, public health surveillance raises complex questions about privacy, political liberty, and justice both of and in data use. Individuals and groups can be chilled in their personal lives, stigmatized or threatened, and used for the benefit of others when health information is wrongfully collected or used. Transparency and openness about data use, public involvement in decisions, and just distribution of the benefits of surveillance are core elements in the justification of surveillance practices. Understanding health surveillance practices, the concerns it raises, and how to respond to them is critical not only to ethical and trustworthy but also to publicly acceptable and ultimately sustainable surveillance practices. The book is of interest to scholars and practitioners of the ethics and politics of public health, bioethics, privacy and data technology, and health policy. These issues are ever more pressing in pandemic times, where misinformation can travel quickly and suspicions about disease spread, treatment efficacy, and vaccine safety can have devastating public health effects.
Bibliography, etc. Note Includes bibliographical references.
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Added Author Francis, Leslie, 1946-
Series Public health ethics analysis ; v. 6.
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Introduction: Why Surveillance Matters
Counting Numbers
Case Identification and Contact Tracing
Surveillance and Equity: Identifying Hazards in the Environment
Enhancing Surveillance: New Data, New Technologies, and New Actors
Surveillance for the "new" Public Health
Public Health, communities and consent
Conclusion.

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