Science. 2000 Dec 8;290(5498):1898-9.

Public health. Surveillance and privacy.

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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.

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Science 2000 Dec 15;290(5499):2075b.

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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.

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