Balancing privacy with public health news

How much information on individuals should be released in public health emergencies? Three organizations — the Association of Health Care Journalists and two others composed of public officials — have just issued recommendations after meeting on that issue. "The meeting was prompted by the wide variation in information released by state and local public health officials about people in their localities who died in the H1N1 pandemic of 2009," the introduction says.

July 21, 2011

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