sharon sanders
Editor-in-Chief & President
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Ethical considerations in developing a public health response to pandemic influenza
"...Balancing rights, interests and values
Preparedness planning for an influenza pandemic involves balancing potentially conflicting individual and community interests. In emergency situations, the enjoyment of individual human rights and civil liberties may have to be limited in the public interest.
However, efforts to protect individual rights should be part of any policy. Measures that limit individual rights and civil liberties must be necessary,
reasonable, proportional, equitable, non-discriminatory,
and in full compliance with national and international laws..."
http://www.who.int/csr/resources/publications/WHO_CDS_EPR_GIP_2007_2c.pdf
Ethical considerations in developing a public health response to pandemic influenza
"...Balancing rights, interests and values
Preparedness planning for an influenza pandemic involves balancing potentially conflicting individual and community interests. In emergency situations, the enjoyment of individual human rights and civil liberties may have to be limited in the public interest.
However, efforts to protect individual rights should be part of any policy. Measures that limit individual rights and civil liberties must be necessary,
reasonable, proportional, equitable, non-discriminatory,
and in full compliance with national and international laws..."
http://www.who.int/csr/resources/publications/WHO_CDS_EPR_GIP_2007_2c.pdf